netdev - Re: TCP and reordering

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Message-ID: <loom.20121129T160915-947@post.gmane.org>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:10:45 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP and reordering

David Woodhouse <dwmw2 <at> infradead.org> writes:
> On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 09:16 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > BQL was really something to control/limit queueing on ethernet links,
> > not for stacked devices, as stacked devices normally have no queue.
> 
> Stacked devices have more queue than anything else :)
> 

Surely BQL is something that should only be implemented on the device at the 
bottom of the stack, and everything above that shouldn't be bothering?




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