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Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, codel@lists.bufferbloat.net,
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Subject: Re: [Codel] [PATCH 1/2] codel: Controlled Delay AQM
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On 05/07/2012 10:10 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 09:43 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
>> On 05/05/2012 12:32 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
>>> From: Dave Täht<dave.taht@bufferbloat.net>
>>>
>>> tc qdisc ... codel [ limit PACKETS ] [ target TIME]
>>> 		   [ interval TIME ] [ minbytes BYTES ]
>>
>> Usability suggestions - "target_latency" or "target_lat" and
>> "action_interval" or "decision_interval" perhaps?
>
> We took the terms used in the codel paper.
>
> By the way, target is not target_latency, its more a target threshold
> (packets under it are not dropped), but packets above might be dropped.

I don't wish to rathole, and someone may want to declare Bikeshed! but 
the target audience of the paper is a bit different from the Linux 
system administrator base yes?  If a parameter name enhancement makes 
something more clear to an administrator is it really a bad thing to 
have a name that is not a strict duplicate of the paper's?

rick