Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 17:11:58 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Jonathan Looney <jonlooney@gmail.com> Cc: hiren panchasara <hiren@strugglingcoder.info>, Randall Stewart <rrs@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r332770 - in head/sys: conf netinet netinet/tcp_stacks sys Message-ID: <CANCZdfpM8iFO5T79_mHzaTGPZsg=4YkUhctKQdHxXMxNGiqjEw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADrOrmuVuSV2y3DRVxDfD7xT46rMkcEj19X1MQhSwVa%2BSZs6ng@mail.gmail.com> References: <201804191338.w3JDc0to002106@repo.freebsd.org> <20180430071646.GE3653@strugglingcoder.info> <CADrOrmuVuSV2y3DRVxDfD7xT46rMkcEj19X1MQhSwVa%2BSZs6ng@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Jonathan Looney <jonlooney@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 3:16 AM, hiren panchasara < > hiren@strugglingcoder.info> wrote: > > > > In my understanding, default stack currently cannot use this mechanism. > When do > > you think that'll be possible? > > > I think I can speak to Randall's plans for this. > > Randall chose not to include in this commit the hooks for the default > stack to use the high-precision timers. I believe his immediate priorities > are upstreaming RACK and BBR. After that, if there is demand, he may > upstream the (relatively untested) code that allows the default stack to > use the high-precision timers (protected by a non-default kernel option) so > others can choose to experiment with it. > > (By the way, we're hoping to change the terminology away from describing > the traditional FreeBSD stack as the "default" stack. In theory, someone > can make any stack be their local default. We'll need to figure out what to > actually call it at some point. My suggestion was the "FreeBSD" stack, > although that is lacking in some imagination. In any case, we should have > that discussion at some point in the future. > Only slightly less poor would be "traditional" stack :) Warner
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