netdev - Re: netem: the reorder discussion

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Message-ID: <1377273838.8828.11.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Fri, 23 Aug 2013 09:03:58 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Teco Boot <teco@...-net.nl>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Ferry Huberts <mailings@...ie.com>,
	Netem <netem@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"core-users@...itd.nrl.navy.mil" <core-users@...itd.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: netem: the reorder discussion

On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:53 +0200, Teco Boot wrote:

> Questions that pops out of of my head: What is more important,
> understandable configuration or keep existing behavior for unmodified
> configuration? Do we want to reorder, even with configured rate?
> 
> My preference: make in understandable, document well and make all
> sensible options available. 

The day 'rate' support was added, documentation became obsolete.

Its actually hard to have both rate and delay + jitters + reorders or
not.

If you can fix this properly, patches are welcome, but I suspect you
wanted to reintroduce the thing that made netem unusable for us.



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