Subject: Re: SFQ: Reordering?

From: Andy Furniss <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:14:47 +0100

Patrick McHardy wrote:

> It would be interesting to see this in real-life, when a single flow
> is hashed to multiple buckets (it can be even more than two) and
> each bucket has some packets queued, the result should look pretty
> chaotic.

It certainly hurts latency if used for ingress shaping, perturb nearly 
always makes the sender backoff and then burst.

Andy.