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Re: [aqm] [Cerowrt-devel] ping loss "considered harmful"

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Wed, 04 March 2015 08:14 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:17:33 +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson said:
>
>> We have a huge amount of information in our TCP stacks that either are
>> locked in there and not used properly to help users figure out what's
>> going on, and there is basically zero information flow between the
>> applications using TCP and the TCP stack itself. Each just tries to do its
>> best on its own layer.
>
> You might want to touch base with the 'web10g' crew, who are working on
> instrumenting the Linux network stack to expose more of the inner variables
> for analysis and tuning.
>
> http://web10g.org/

I know about them. I have been pitching my idea since 2008 or so. We need 
more people working on this.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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