From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 26 08:08:56 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA16916 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:08:56 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA16907 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:08:54 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA18341; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:08:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:08:46 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9506261508.AA18341@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: davidg@root.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa sio.c In-Reply-To: <199506252258.PAA00581@corbin.Root.COM> References: <9506252023.AA17317@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199506252258.PAA00581@corbin.Root.COM> Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> This is because you don't have priority queueing for TCP ack packets. >> You probably will before the end of the year. > I'm not sure this going help a lot - most of the data gets buffered in the > modem and priority queing for ACKs isn't going to help this. This is arguably a problem with the modems and not the machines. This sort of situation makes it impossible to offer any useful sort of quality-of-service beyond best-effort. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant