ACK and Packet Queues
Do Linux packet schedulers also queue and allow prioritization ACK responses?
I just spent the last hour googling for an answer to my question, and I can't find one, and I thought I'd ask here, possibly someone who understands the packet queuing code is subscribed.
I'm asking because I'm trying to find a good way to influence what packets are sent to me over a slow link. I'm thinking along the lines of mangling TOS on incoming AND outgoing packets of SomeService, saying I want them to be Minimize-Delay, and having the ACK of the incoming packets of SomeService be Minimize-Delay as well, so that SomeService ACKs are sent before other ACKs, just like SomeService normal outgoing packets would be.
Because I would be now Minimize-Delay-ing all incoming and outgoing traffic of SomeServce, it would increase the chances of me getting SomeService traffic over other traffic (or so I hope.)
This all depends, of course, if Linux's packet scheduler also schedules ACKs (and allows me to prioritize them).
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