netdev - Re: SACK scoreboard

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Message-Id: <20080108.223537.03265671.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:35:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lachlan.andrew@...il.com
Cc:	jheffner@....edu, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, quetchen@...tech.edu
Subject: Re: SACK scoreboard

From: "Lachlan Andrew" <lachlan.andrew@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:34:03 -0800

> John also suggested freeing the packets as a lower priority task, just
> doing it after they're acknowledged.
> 
> When the ACK finally comes, you could do something like moving John's
> entire list of packets to a "to be freed" list, and free a few every
> time (say) another ACK comes in.

You could, but this requires extra state and the operations to
properly queue such items to the deferred task and wake it up.

And none of this would be necessary if we could make SACK
indications hard.
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