On Sat, 11 Jan 2014, Rich Brown wrote:
Folks,
I am so pleased with the state of CeroWrt. The software has improved
enormously, to the point that we all get really good performance from our
routers at home. If you want a real eyeful of the progress we’ve made, check
list at the bottom of the Release Notes:
http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/CeroWrt_310_Release_Notes
CeroWrt is working great. We have two great testimonials for how it has
improved network performance (from Fred Stratton and David Personnette, see
https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cerowrt-devel/2014-January/001961.html
and
https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cerowrt-devel/2014-January/001970.html)
I have been using 3.10.24-8 at home without hiccups (after I turned on SQM :-)
since it was shipped. We’ve got a really great program.
But - I’m afraid we’re letting perfection be the enemy of the good. Here are a
couple indications:
Strong agreement from me as well.
David Lang
- The rest of the world doesn’t know about this good work. If you look at the
front page of the site, we’re recommending CeroWrt 3.7.5-2 from last February.
It has Codel, but not much more. Our understanding of the world has expanded by
an order of magnitude, but we’re not making it available to anyone.
- The entire discussion of link layers has held us back. That’s why I proposed
to cut back the choices to ATM and None, and let people figure out the details
if they want to/have time to optimize.
- We have tons of updated modules (dnsmasq, IPv6, quagga, mosh) which we should
get out to the world.
- The entire product is much tighter, works better, and we can be proud of it.
As Dave Täht pointed out in a recent note:
Compared to the orders of magnitude we already get from fq codel, the sum
benefit
of these [Link Layer Adaptation] fixes is in the very small percentage points.
This is true of the entire CeroWrt build.
Proposal:
We should “finish up the last bits” to make 3.10.24-8 (or a close derivative)
be a stable release. It has been working fine AFAIK for lots and lots of us. It
certainly has been as well tested as other branches. I see the following:
- Look through the release notes (very bottom of the page at the URL above) and
review the items that Dave was worried about for the 3.10.24-8 release
- Make a decision on Link Layer Adaptation choices, and implement it.
- What else?
Best,
Rich
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