Matt Olson

Sure, but why is that more useful than simply printing the version? Is it required by the proposed package manager work?

(I'm really hoping the above experience was really just a nightmare I was having. This Issue is to basically find out whether that's the case.)

That doesn't answer my question, though. I'm asking, what model do the NICs currently use?

By the way, I found what I was reading before, here's a link: https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/VMAv875/Advanced+Features#AdvancedFeatures-PacketPacing They describe an API that smells like a global pacing rate for the whole interface, which...

I don't see how the upper layer could handle the sorting itself, because you can't restrict the upper layer to post packets in global order of when they should be...

By the way, there's some very relevant discussion in section 8 of this paper, if you aren't aware: https://saeed.github.io/files/carousel-sigcomm17.pdf

I feel like that paper is describing how a packet sorting algorithm like carousel is implemented on top of a single-queue hardware pacer, but I don't really understand the paper's...

By "flow" I mean "connection". A transport protocol implementation will typically post the packets for a single connection in the same order as it wants them to be sent, as...