netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] dccp: Lockless integration of CCID congestion-control plugins

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Message-Id: <20090104.214555.48754453.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:45:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	dccp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] dccp: Lockless integration of CCID
 congestion-control plugins

From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Sat,  3 Jan 2009 08:30:47 +0100

> Based on Arnaldo's earlier patch, this patch integrates the standardised
> CCID congestion control plugins (CCID-2 and CCID-3) of DCCP with dccp.ko:
> 
>  * enables a faster connection path by eliminating the need to always go 
>    through the CCID registration lock;
> 
>  * updates the implementation to use only a single array whose size equals
>    the number of configured CCIDs instead of the maximum (256);
> 
>  * since the CCIDs are now fixed array elements, synchronization is no
>    longer needed, simplifying use and implementation.
> 
> CCID-2 is suggested as minimum for a basic DCCP implementation (RFC 4340, 10);
> CCID-3 is a standards-track CCID supported by RFC 4342 and RFC 5348.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>

Applied.
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