Re: 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:55:18PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

I wonder if it's an option to use low priority QoS fields for these acks
(heck I don't even know if ACKs have such fields in their packet) so
that they can get dropped if there are more packets then there is
bandwidth ....

Is it proven that the number of ACKs actually cause bandwidth problems?
I found Volanomark to exercise the scheduler more than anything else,
so maybe the slowdown, while triggered by an increased number of ACKs,
is caused by something else entirely.

Olaf
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