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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] TCP: Support configurable delayed-ack parameters.
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:21:58 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:11:59 -0700

> Dave..any opinion on this?  I'll be happy to get rid of the
> multiply caching if it's agreed that it should not be there.

I disagree fundamentally with the feature.

I can't believe for one minute that we can't do ACK stretching
dynamically using reasonable heuristics.

And, as Stephen said, we already have too many damn knobs.