netdev - Re: NCR, was [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable

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Message-Id: <20070829.155911.08334782.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:59:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jheffner@....edu
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, ian.mcdonald@...di.co.nz,
	rick.jones2@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NCR, was [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout
 configurable

From: John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:58:12 -0400

> I don't believe this was the case.  NCR is substantially different, and 
> came out of work at Texas A&M.  The original (only) implementation was 
> in Linux IIRC.  Its goal was to do better.  Their papers say it does. 
> It might be worth looking at.
> 
> In my own experience with reordering, Alexey's code had some 
> hard-to-track-down bugs (look at all the work Ilpo's been doing), and 
> the relative simplicity of NCR may be one of the reasons it does well in 
> tests.

Interesting, thanks for the info John.
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