[Cake] fragmenting for lowest per flow latency

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 18:40:13 PDT 2015


On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> (I should probably create an alias for the crazy ideas like "devnull")
>
> but I have kind of wondered just how bad the fragmentation problem really was,
> and with peeling, already, we could also add fragmentation support, to
> create tons of fragments... and see what breaks, and get even lower
> per small packet flow latency when larger packets were present.
>
> I actually have a use case for this personally in that dnssec's rules
> (eDNS0) for fragmentation were a real pain in the arse of late, and
> *knowing* devices we work on handle fragments appropriately would be
> nice.

Whilst working through this crazy idea, I realized that the converse
might be useful,
doing reassembly of fragments along the way.

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