Subject: Re: I/O priorities
To: Jed Davis <jldavis+netbsdlist@cs.oberlin.edu>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/22/2002 11:27:08
> deteriorate in this case.  (I got numbers in the 5s-6s range, trying
> this a few weeks ago.)
>
> I suppose that, in the case of IP, that this is what the TOS field was
> meant for: moving interactive traffic ahead of bulk traffic in the
> relevant queue(s).  The problem is that it requires explicit marking
> (which I have actually observed OpenSSH doing) and various devices'
> actually reading off and honoring the TOS marking (which I'm not
> especially optimistic about).

as TOS marking could be abused on shared network - on one machine someone
may "fix" his/her OS to put this field always ON

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