On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:29:24 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:46:55 -0700
> 
> > On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:58:59 -0700 (PDT)
> > David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW, it seems we now have at least 3 instances "VEGAS + stuff"
> > > and thus the core vegas logic is duplicated that many times.
> > > Would be nice to have some core vegas infrastructure in the
> > > generic congestion avoidance layer at some point.
> > 
> > Agreed, and the vegas stuff needs some work as well. It should
> > have more smoothing like Westwood+
> 
> And that Westwood+ "smoothing" is the same sample smoothing algorithm
> used in other parts of the generic TCP input processing, for example
> in functions such as tcp_rtt_estimator() :-)

We could even support different (or smarter) smoothing functions???
The vegas stuff needs to be smarter that's for sure. Time to go catch up
on my reading.
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