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Date:	Fri, 9 May 2014 16:27:39 +0200
From:	"erik.hugne@...csson.com" <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
CC:	'Jon Maloy' <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	"ying.xue@...driver.com" <ying.xue@...driver.com>,
	"maloy@...jonn.com" <maloy@...jonn.com>,
	"tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/8] tipc: decrease connection flow control
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On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:30:43PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> Sounds a bit like a badly designed protocol to me...

Well, i don't like this either but the current message-oriented flowcontrol
will eventually be replaced with a byte-based one. Right now we're trying
to find a way to adapt a message-oriented flow control to per-socket buffer
constraints, without breaking protocol compatibility.

//E
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