From: "Lachlan Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:34:03 -0800
> John also suggested freeing the packets as a lower priority task, just > doing it after they're acknowledged. > > When the ACK finally comes, you could do something like moving John's > entire list of packets to a "to be freed" list, and free a few every > time (say) another ACK comes in. You could, but this requires extra state and the operations to properly queue such items to the deferred task and wake it up. And none of this would be necessary if we could make SACK indications hard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
