Donations to the core bufferbloat effort are at an all time low, $832.00/month. [1]
I am presently also in the process of finalizing a response to a FCC NOI for which I will conduct another funding (and signature!) drive later this week. It is due December 1, and I hope to start circulating a rough draft nov 27th. This past year: Presently bufferbloat.net's fixed expenses run at about $542/month for Linode hosting of the website and the worldwide fleet of flent test servers. We have a grant from Equinix for bare metal hardware (but mostly used that up for libreqos (other uses of bare metal wanted?)). We had another grant from NLnet covering some but *far* from all of LibreQos's costs. Thank you to both those orgs for their support this past year! ... but if anyone (or their organisation) would like to throw in to keeping the servers alive, and to me for maintaining and moderating these lists... please click here: https://www.patreon.com/dtaht . I have to admit being a little overstretched, right now. For the past year, most (nearly all of mine, anyway) of our efforts have been focused on making LibreQos the fastest, most stable CAKE shaping and packet analysis tool anyone has ever seen, making ISPs capable of deploying better user experiences, overnight. The LibreQos team shipped v1.4 with massive improvements across the board last week! We have not got around to a bigger release announcement yet - there were some teething pains that might result in a v1.4.1 respin! LibreQos can push 25Gbits for 10,000 ISP network subscribers across 20 cores of Xeon running 50% idle through 10k instances of the CAKE qdisc. For an ISP, the CAPEX/subscriber to deploy is a few dozen pennies, once, the time-to-first-deployment measured in weekends. Tell your ISPs about it? The core of LibreQos is GPLv2 software, available from github and leverages C, python and Rust. A huge thanks to herbert, robert, frank, trendal, dan, lachlan, mark, naiux and the other 180 people in the matrix chat channel now using it for all the development and testing and deployment to date. LibreQoE, LLC (the group of founders behind it, which includes me) have a plan for a commercial addon for LTS (Long-term statistics) for this but the core shaping and analysis engine will always remain libre software. rust/python/C developers, testers, the merely curious network nerd, the ISP that wants to make serious strides on latency and make their gamers and voipers and videoconfrencers happier, please have at it. I will be talking more abut LibreQoS's global analysis of worldwide packet flow statistics at the upcoming UnderstandingLatency conference Dec 11-13. I was very pleased to see the OpenWrt 23 release happen last month, chock full of net goodness (my thanks to everyone on that team!) I hope y'all have been upgrading! If you are in a donating mood, that org always could use some, too. In other business... I really need to sit down and write up all the amazing stuff that happened this year sometime next month. Please forgive me for if I missed you below... or step forth and toot your own horn? Drop me an email privately and tell me what you did so I can include it in the end of year report? Especially at this moment: I would like to thank Dave Seddon very much to getting at the bottom of all the ARM64 issues w/fq_codel and w/cake we have been seeing all year. It turned out that nearly half the arm64 ethernet drivers he looked at were broken in some way, that there are some severe memory bandwidth issues that affect even FIFOs on the low end... and that the pi5 is looking good. There has been some progress on fixing those arm drivers since. I would like to thank also Jamal at netdevconf for asking me for talks in Canada last month. It had a focusing effect, and brought me into contact with a new generation of developers. Moving forward into next year, in particular right now, on my mind - if anyone knows of some org that can help on the next version of cake as the next openwrt development cycle ramps up (making it multicore among other things), please let me know off-list. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tTYBPeaRdCO9AGTGQCpoiuLORQzN_bG3TAkEolJPh28/edit#heading=h.vbbnfu73wlpp Thank you everyone for all your efforts in beating the bloat, worldwide. Never has so much been accomplished by so many, on so little, in (admittedly) 14 years of working together, mostly as volunteers, as we have. I feel like we are finally rounding the corner on these projects. Suggestions for other things to focus on next year, welcomed! Happy thanksgiving... and if you have not seen "Alices Restaurant, Illustrated", check it out on youtube. It's a gas. [1] Bufferbloat.net is not a 501c(3), just an outgrowth of TekLibre.net's other activities. -- Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
