On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 4:32 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@toke.dk> wrote: > > Luca Muscariello <muscarie...@ieee.org> writes: > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 3:19 PM Mikael Abrahamsson via Bloat > > <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 1 Sep 2020, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > >> > >> > Yup, the number of cores is only going to go up, so for CAKE to stay > >> > relevant it'll need to be able to take advantage of this eventually :) > >> > >> https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2plus/ is an interesting platform, > >> it has a quad core machine with 2 x 2.5GbE NICs. > >> > >> When using something like this for routing with HTB+CAKE for bidirectional > >> shaping below line rate, what would be the main things that would need to > >> be improved? > > > > IMO, hardware offloading for shaping, beyond this specific platform. > > I ignore if there is any roadmap with that objective. > > Yeah, offloading of some sort is another option, but I consider that > outside of the "CAKE stays relevant" territory, since that will most > likely involve an entirely programmable packet scheduler. There was some > discussion of adding such a qdisc to Linux at LPC[0]. The Eiffel[1] > algorithm seems promising. > > -Toke > > [0] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/679/ > [1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi19/presentation/saeed
These are all interesting efforts for scheduling but orthogonal to shaping and not going to help make shaping more scalable. _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
