[Codel] [Cerowrt-devel] happy 4th!

[Eric Dumazet]

On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 23:32 -0700, Dave Taht wrote:

> and... unlike in the past where tcp was being optimized for
> supercomputer center to supercomputer center, the vast majority of tcp
> related work is now coming out of google, who are optimizing for short
> transfers over short rtts.

That's not really true, we work on many issues, including long transfers
and long rtt.

Beware of tools reproducing latencies, reorders, drops, because they
often add unexpected bugs. One has to be extra careful and check
tcpdumps or things like that to double check tools are not buggy.