On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Simon Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed - I believe that Codel will drop too much to allow maximum bandwidth
> utilization, when there are very few flows, and RTT is significantly greater
> than target. The theory is - with a Reno based CC the cwind gets cut in half
> on a drop. If the drop in cwind is greater than the number of packets in the
> queue, then the queue will empty out, and the link will then be idle for a
> while. If you want data to keep the data flowing uninterrupted, then you
> must have a full unloaded RTT's worth of data in the queue at that point. A
> drop will happen, the cwind will be halved (assuming a Reno TCP), and the
> sender will stop sending until one (unloaded) RTT's worth of data has been
> received. At that point the queue will just hit empty as the sender starts
> sending again.
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> On 6/9/2015 10:30 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote:
>>
>>
>> Wouldn't that be a sign of dropping too much, in contrast to your previous
>> post suggesting it wouldn't drop enough?
>>
>> In practice, statistical multiplexing works just fine with fq_codel, and
>> you do in fact get more throughput with multiple flows in those cases where
>> a single flow fails to each adequate utilisation.
>>
>> Additionally, utilisation below 100% is really characteristic of Reno on
>> any worthwhile AQM queue and significant RTT. Other TCPs, particularly CUBIC
>> and Westwood+, do rather better.
>>
>> - Jonathan Morton
>>
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