On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Dave Taht wrote:
I/we really should have beat the bql drum harder over the last 6 years.
It's the basic start to all the debloating.
It only helps with kernel based forwarding. A lot of devices don't even
use this, especially as speeds go up. They use packet accelerators
I had a chance to give a talk at broadcom recently, slides here:
http://flent-fremont.bufferbloat.net/~d/broadcom_aug9.pdf
(there's a fun slide on "carmageddon", and I am finding the
"tcp_square_wave" test *works* on EE types)
I was very happy to see BQL support in all of broadcom's *ethernet*