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- From: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Subject: More Flow Control
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.153459.1104@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Reply-To: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:34:59 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <sa3b6g8@sgi.sgi.com>, rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
- >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...
- >+---------------
- >
- >Kills your latency. By the time you do all that "reservation" mishmash,
-
- Probably can be done in 10 milliseconds or so, using either a central
- bidding platform over network diameter of five nodes in local environment.
-
- >you might as well have just used Leaky-Bucket into a constant-rate pipe...
-
- Yes, but the leaky bucket also kills latency, since the source cannot really
- burst at the rate it wants to support. So now the workstation must provide
- buffering outside the control of the local context to smooth its data rate
- or else occupy the desktop operating system doing it in software.
-
- With a bandwidth reservation process, the workstation issues a bandwidth
- reservation request, goes to sleep, then wakes up when the bandwidth is
- reserved, subsequently bursting at the reserved rate, up to the maximum
- link speed. The cost to implement bandwidth reservation in the network
- is software.
-
- Look at the applications like massive file transfer, disk back up, where
- latency is not an issue, and the cost of supporting leaky bucket buffering
- at the desktop is prohibitive. This method is not proposed to support
- existing LAN applications.
-