svn commit: r332770 - in head/sys: conf netinet netinet/tcp_stacks sys

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Jonathan Looney <jonlooney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 3:16 AM, hiren panchasara <
> hiren at strugglingcoder.info> wrote:
> >
> > In my understanding, default stack currently cannot use this mechanism.
> When do
> > you think that'll be possible?
>
>
> I think I can speak to Randall's plans for this.
>
> Randall chose not to include in this commit the hooks for the default
> stack to use the high-precision timers. I believe his immediate priorities
> are upstreaming RACK and BBR. After that, if there is demand, he may
> upstream the (relatively untested) code that allows the default stack to
> use the high-precision timers (protected by a non-default kernel option) so
> others can choose to experiment with it.
>
> (By the way, we're hoping to change the terminology away from describing
> the traditional FreeBSD stack as the "default" stack. In theory, someone
> can make any stack be their local default. We'll need to figure out what to
> actually call it at some point. My suggestion was the "FreeBSD" stack,
> although that is lacking in some imagination. In any case, we should have
> that discussion at some point in the future.
>

Only slightly less poor would be "traditional" stack :)

Warner