On 11/16/06, Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quoting Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: | On 9/22/06, Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > Quoting Eddie Kohler: | > | > Why burden the application programmer to handcode an estimation of the average each | > | > time? I can not see a justification for this, certainly not for CCIDs which | > | > are intended to be used with (on average) fixed packet sizes. | > | > | > | > I think that a priority is to keep the user programming interface as simple as | > | > possible -- like UDP's interface, as stated in RFC 4340. | > | | > | But if DCCP_SOCKOPT_TX_PACKET_SIZE defaults to the MSS, which the drafts | > | explicitly allow, then there's no burden on the application programmer. | > This is a good input and should be related to patch 6/7 in which the default setting is | > the standard size packet of 256 bytes; so maybe we should use MSS (or an estimate of it) there. | | Hi Folks, could Ian or Gerrit respin these patches to reflect what was | discussed here? Perhaps we can get this merged in 2.6.20 if we get | this done and tested before the merge window closes.
I am working on this, hope to have patch ready by end of next week.
Great, look forward for the changesets, - Arnaldo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
