Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:15:01 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf clusters and socket send buffers (was Re: 3.1-STABLE dies on 40+ connects) Message-ID: <19990328121501.A1353@titan.klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199903261504.KAA23189@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:04:22AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903251452370.1470-100000@leaf.lumiere.net> <199903260054.QAA22060@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> <199903261504.KAA23189@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:04:22AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:54:16 -0800 (PST), Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> said: > > > A thought related to this discussion: does it make sense to allow the > > send buffers to be larger than the peer's advertised window size? > > In other words, why "preposition" those bytes in the kernel before > > the peer has indicated a willingness to accept them? > > No, it doesn't. Just ask Van Jacobson. > > Unfortunately, that doesn't get OUR TCP stack rewritten any faster. What do you think about the work of the PSC ? http://www.psc.edu/networking/auto.html This has been brought up in this thread... -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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