On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:26:08PM -0400, jamal wrote:
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> One of the things we need to measure still is the latency. The scheme
> currently used with dynamically adjusting the mitigation parameters might
> not affect latency much -- simply because the adjustement is based on the
> load. We still have to prove this. The theory is:
> Under a lot of congestion, you delay longer because the layers above
> you are congested as gauged from a feedback; and under low congestion, you
> should theoretically adjust all the way down to 1 interupt/packet. Under
> heavy load, your latency is already screwed anyways because of large
> backlog queue; this is regardless of mitigation.
Or maybe the extra delay in congested circumstances will cause more
timeouts and that's precisely when you need to improve latency?
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