netdev - Re: [RFC] netem: correlated loss generation (v3)

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Date:	Thu, 20 May 2010 01:04:33 +0200
From:	Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>
To:	Stefano Salsano <stefano.salsano@...roma2.it>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Fabio Ludovici <fabio.ludovici@...oo.it>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netem@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] netem: correlated loss generation (v3)

* Stefano Salsano | 2010-05-20 00:52:00 [+0200]:

>So my opinion is that the need to emulate "correlated" loss patterns
>is not academic, but it is a real need from industry... of course we
>can debate if it is a "niche" requirement or not

netem is not in the processing hot path, so there is no issue to add an
additional component. If there are some[TM] users and it is usable, I am
fine with this patch!

>tc qdisc change dev wlan0 root netem loss 2 10
>
>because this produces broken results...

How to model this specific network characteristic (2% loss, correlation 10%)
with your modifications? Can you give us an example?

Cheers, Hagen

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