On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:09 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> So basically I agree with your problem statement, however I think it would be
> benficial if your proposed solution was a bit more specific, or at least
> pointed more in that direction. To propose a solution that sounds more like
> "limit buffers to 100ms or less and everything will be fine" would indeed
> remove some of the problem, but it would hurt performance for some
> applications.
The key to the solution is better Adaptive Queue Management, or AQM. As long
as we have to decide on fixed queue sizes for all traffic, we're forced to
cater to the most common traffic type.
It would be nice to put queues of different RTT into different queues. Today
that is basically impossible.
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