Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:22:55 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack Message-ID: <20040308212255.GA52526@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040308202210.GB485@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <404BA723.C8141806@freebsd.org> <20040308182431.4FA6D5D08@ptavv.es.net> <20040308202210.GB485@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:22:10PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:24:31AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, SACK is often looked upon as a waste of effort to those > > who use nets in more commercial forms where aggregation of lots of small > > streams is how fat pipes are used. Research big science are about the > > only ones who have a real need for this kind of performance and it's > > growing fast. Without SACK, FreeBSD will be a non-starter for these > > purposes. > > I've got a co-worker who is part of a research group at ISI that > is doing research on long fat pipes with large streams. They are > intrested in doing a SACK implementation. I hope to have some more > information later this week. > Has anyone looked at Luigi's stuff? http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/sack.html The page states that Luigi had SACK available in FreeBSD 2.1R, which was released 8 years ago. -- Steve
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