Hi Peter, To your last point ...
Authors stated: "Whether egress queueing delay is included in the link delay depends on the measuring mechanism." So sure there will be thresholds etc ... but this may very well depend on the traffic. Thx, R. On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:34 AM Peter Psenak <ppse...@cisco.com> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > On 01/03/2021 21:47, Tony Li wrote: > > Robert, > > > >> Constructing arbitrary topologies with bw constrain is useful work. For > example I want to create a topology without links of the capacity less then > 1 Gbps. All cool. Of course if I have a case where two nodes have 10 L3 > 1Gbps links nicely doing ECMP I will not include those which may be a > problem. > > > > > > I agree that it may be a problem. Maybe it’s not the right tool for the > job at hand. That doesn’t make it a bad tool, just the wrong one. I try not > to turn screws with a hammer. And I try not to drive nails with a > screwdriver. > > > > I will happily stipulate that we need more tools and that these are not > enough. We should not reject a tool simply because it doesn’t solve all > problems. Let’s work towards the right set of tools. Linear algebra tells > us that we want an orthogonal set of basis vectors. What are they? Adding > them one at a time is not horrible progress. > > > > > >> However my observation is precisely related to your last sentence. > >> > >> Is this extension to be used with static or dynamic data ? If static > all fine. But as William replied to me earlier link delay may be > dynamically computed and may include queue wait time. That to me means > something much different if Flex-Algo topologies will become dynamically > adjustable. And I am not saying this is not great idea .. My interest here > is just to understand the current scope. > > > > > > Link delay was dynamic before this draft. As William mentioned, TWAMP > can already be used to provide a dynamic measurement of link delay. That, > coupled with the link delay metric already gave us dynamic path computation > requirements and the possibilities of oscillation and instability. We have > chosen to charge ahead, without addressing those concerns already. > > TWAMP provided Min Unidirectional Link Delay is a dynamic one. On the > other side this value is calculated based on multiple measurements over > period of time and an average is used. Also, smart implementations can > normalize the value so that a small fluctuation of the delay is not > causing the traffic to shift or cause ECMP loss. > > What is important here is that the Min Unidirectional Link Delay is a > link characteristic, not something that is affected by the amount of > traffic on the link or subject to queuing delay. Same applies to Maximum > link bandwidth. > > thanks, > Peter > > > > > > Regards, > > Tony > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Lsr mailing list > > Lsr@ietf.org > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr > > > > > >
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