[Bloat] lwn.net's tcp small queues vs wifi aggregation solved

[Jonathan Morton]

> On 22 Jun, 2018, at 5:01 pm, Kathleen Nichols <nichols at pollere.com> wrote:
> 
> Your original note was looking for a way
> for finding out if the probability of seeing more data in the next 10us
> was sufficiently large to delay "a teeny bit" so that would be the
> problem statement.

I would instead frame the problem as "how can we get hardware to incorporate extra packets, which arrive between the request and grant phases of the MAC, into the same TXOP?"  Then we no longer need to think probabilistically, or induce unnecessary delay in the case that no further packets arrive.

 - Jonathan Morton