<div dir="ltr">If I understand the patch well, the ack filter is actually fixing the problem of ACK compression only.<div>Because it is enforced on packets in the queue only. It is stateless.</div><div><br></div><div>ACK compression would happen even w/o highly asymmetric access links by just </div><div>having concurrent data streams with ack streams.</div><div><br></div><div>So, IMO, the patch is harmless per se in all cases. </div><div>ACK compression is harmful though and the patch fixes it.</div><div><br></div><div>Background on ACK compression:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Lixia Zhang, Scott Shenker, and Daivd D. Clark. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Observations on the dynamics of a congestion control algorithm: the effects of two-way traffic. </span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">acm sigcomm 1991.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Jonathan Morton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chromatix99@gmail.com" target="_blank">chromatix99@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">The one "correct" argument against ack-filtering I've seen is that it encourages (or rather validates) the use of extreme asymmetry ratios.</p>
<p dir="ltr">However, these extreme ratios are already in widespread use without the aid of ack-filtering. Even ADSL2 Annex A has, as its "ideal" sync rate, a 16:1 ratio, which Annex M modifies to under 10:1. I fear we must conclude that technical considerations are not the driving factor here.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A better place to sort out the asymmetry problem (as well as several other problems of current interest) would be in a free, competitive market. Sadly such a thing is rare in the telecoms sector.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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