netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4, linux-2.6.30.4

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Message-ID: <bb6e06c00908140452t7e993282va5841a6dd4f2ba78@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:52:27 +0200
From:	Daniel Slot <slot.daniel@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hannemann@...s.rwth-aachen.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4, linux-2.6.30.4

> Why not just fix up for the deficiencies you're aware of?

Because it never was our intention to replace/improve the already
existing reordering mechanisms.
We just wanted to provide the possibility to switch to another
reordering-robust algorithm.
It could be similar to the large amount of congestion control
algorithms, which are also part of the kernel but rarely used.
A sophistcated congestion control algorithm is standardly used by the
kernel, but other ones are available too.

With our tcp-ncr patch, researchers would have the possibility to make
measurements with an IETF approved algorithm.
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