Re: [PATCH RFC v2 net-next 0/5] net: Qdisc backpressure infrastructure

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Aug 29 2022 - 20:21:19 EST


On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:53:17 -0700 Cong Wang wrote:
> > Similarly to Eric's comments on v1 I'm not seeing the clear motivation
> > here. Modern high speed UDP users will have a CC in user space, back
> > off and set transmission time on the packets. Could you describe your
> > _actual_ use case / application in more detail?
>
> Not everyone implements QUIC or CC, it is really hard to implement CC
> from scratch. This backpressure mechnism is much simpler than CC (TCP or
> QUIC), as clearly it does not deal with any remote congestions.
>
> And, although this patchset only implements UDP backpressure, it can be
> applied to any other protocol easily, it is protocol-independent.

No disagreement on any of your points. But I don't feel like
you answered my question about the details of the use case.