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Message-ID: <20081014180435.GB2548@ami.dom.local>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:04:35 +0200
From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] sch_netem: Use requeue list instead of
ops->requeue()
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:22:35AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
...
> This won't work for the case where time based reordering changes the packet
> sent. The current code works like this:
>
> Packet marked to be sent at some time (+101ms)
> new packet is queued and the random delay computes smaller delta (+87ms)
> new packet will go out in first.
>
> This was done for compatibility with NISTnet, so research that wanted to reproduce
> NISTnet results could use netem.
>
I've decided to withdraw this all, but I hope these explanations should
be useful for me (to be more careful around here) in the future.
Thanks,
Jarek P.
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