On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Dave Taht wrote:
First, everyone saying that fq_codel can't be done in hardware is
*wrong* See my last point far below, I know I write over-long emails...
What do you define as "hardware"?
YES, at the lowest level of the hardware, where packets turn into light
or fuzzy electrons, or need to be tied up in a an aggregate (as in
cable) and shipped onto the wire, you can't do it. BUT, as BQL has
I am talking about doing this in the NPUs that are available on the
market today and in the future.
We're talking about these kinds of devices:
http://www.tilera.com/News/PressRelease/?ezchip=97
I'm afraid that your experience with CPU driven devices isn't a great
match here, and we're talking past each other.
I would love to be able to use my employers purchasing power to drive
demand on AQM, but I need to know what the requirements are, and that
they're feasable to do, preferrably with an engineering effort for the
vendor in the range of few man years. I can't produce this document
myself, I have already tried pointing them in the direction of
presentations etc, but I need "hard" documents, outlining exactly what
they need to do.
Do we have this currently? In that case, whereto should I point them?
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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