Re: [Bloat] beating the drum for BQL

2018-08-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
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

[Bloat] beating the drum for BQL

2018-08-22 Thread Dave Taht
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*