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- From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
- Subject: Re: More Flow Control
- Message-ID: <sa3b6g8@sgi.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:07:56 GMT
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- myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
- +---------------
- | Competition Based Flow Control:
- | If a data source were required to compete for and reserve available
- | bandwidth prior release of a bursty source then flow control would be
- | well managed in the local environment...
- +---------------
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- Kills your latency. By the time you do all that "reservation" mishmash,
- you might as well have just used Leaky-Bucket into a constant-rate pipe...
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- -Rob
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