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SubjectRe: [Patch] fix packet loss and massive ping spikes with PPP multi-link
Paul Mackerras wrote:

>> I needed to do something similar a while back and I took a very
>> different approach, which I think is more flexible. Rather than
>> implement a new round-robin scheduler I simply introduced a target
>> minimum fragment size into the fragment size calculation, as a per
>> bundle parameter that can be configured via a new ioctl. This
>> modifies the algorithm so that it tries to limit the number of
>> fragments such that each fragment is at least the minimum size. If
>> the minimum size is greater than the packet size it will not be
>> fragmented all but will instead just get sent down the next
>> available channel.
>>
>> A pppd plugin generates the ioctl call allowing this to be tweaked
>> per connection. It is more flexible in that you can still have the
>> larger packets fragmented if you wish.
>
> I like this a lot better than the other proposed patch. It adds less
> code because it uses the fact that ppp_mp_explode() already has a
> round-robin capability using the ppp->nxchan field, plus it provides a
> way to control it per bundle via pppd.
>
> If you fix up the indentation issues (2-space indent in some of the
> added code -- if you're using emacs, set c-basic-offset to 8), I'll
> ack it and hopefully DaveM will pick it up.

Okay, I'll fix it up when I'm back at work Tuesday and submit (today is
a UK public holiday) and also dig out and fix up the userspace code to
go with it.

Ben.



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