[DCCP] CCID2: Tell DCCP to quickly check whether cwnd is available
authorAndrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:10:11 +0000 (13:10 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:19:39 +0000 (15:19 -0700)
commit446dec30c7f305ed1bb0092b0a8d9367d842a33f
tree91c7b8e94e973279974f55732b4b37426a3da2df
parent69263bcfb5016bc3bdd099607a4232cba06f8491
[DCCP] CCID2: Tell DCCP to quickly check whether cwnd is available

If not enough cwnd is available, tell the sender to check again as
soon as possible.  This will increase CPU utilization (polling
frequently for cwnd) but will improve network performance.  That is,
the sender will need to wait less before detecting the increase of
cwnd.  A better architecture would be for the CCID to call-back (or
dequeue) from DCCP when it is able to transmit traffic -- not the
other way around as it currently occurs.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c