Jonathan Morton <chromati...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Yes, exactly. Would be interesting to hear what Jonathan, Toke and >>> others think. I want to see if fairness is preserved in this case with >>> sparse flows only. Could flent do this? >> >> Well, sparse flows are (by definition) not building a queue, so it >> doesn't really make sense to talk about fairness for them. How would you >> measure that? >> >> This is also the reason I agree that they shouldn't be counted for host >> fairness calculation purposes, BTW... > > The trick is that we need to keep fairness of the deficit > replenishments, which occur for sparse flows as well as bulk ones, but > in smaller amounts. The number of active flows is presently the > stand-in for this. It's possible to have a host backlogged with > hundreds of new flows which are, by definition, sparse.
Right, there's some care needed to ensure we don't get weird behaviour during transients such as flow startup. > I'm still trying to get my head around how the modified code works in > detail. It's possible that a different implementation would either be > more concise and readable, or better model what is actually needed. > But I can't tell until I grok it. Cool, good to know you are on it; I'm happy to wait until you've had some time to form an opinion on this :) -Toke _______________________________________________ Cake mailing list Cake@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cake
