From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:24:08 +0200
> By the way, I am not sure NET_XMIT_CN is correctly used in RED. > > Or maybe my understanding of NET_XMIT_CN is wrong. > > If a the packet is dropped in enqueue(), why use NET_XMIT_CN instead of > NET_XMIT_DROP ? > > This seems to mean : I dropped _this_ packet, but dont worry too much, I > might accept other packets, so please go on... I am pretty sure the behavior in RED is intentional. It's a soft push back on TCP. We're taking this path when we are unable to sucessfully ECN mark a packet. But our intention was to do so. _______________________________________________ Codel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/codel
