[e2e] FW: Performance evaluation of high speed TCPs

[Ian McDonald]

>  Seriously, where's the value in comparing buggy implementations - isn't
> that just a waste of all our time ?  If we are genuine about wanting to
> understand tcp performance then I think we just have to take the hit from
> issues such as this that are outside all of our control.
>
A real part of the problem here is that the Linux doesn't have a full
TCP testing suite and doesn't have build checking to check for
regressions in TCP variants. As I understand the only thing tested in
nightly builds is throughput for the default TCP.

Stephen Hemminger has done some work on TCP Probes but this is where I
think real progress could be made in improving Linux TCP. I may get
around to doing this myself at some point in my research but would
welcome other people doing it also!

Ian
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Ian McDonald
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WAND Network Research Group
University of Waikato
New Zealand