Re: [Bloat] [aqm] TSO sizing fixes and the new paced fq scheduler in Linux 3.12

2013-09-29 Thread Alex Elsayed
Dave Taht wrote: On Sep 25, 2013 9:58 AM, Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 17:38 +0200, Luca MUSCARIELLO wrote: Then, I feel like FQ is a bad name to call this newFQ. It's an implementation of a fair TCP pacer. Which is very useful, but FQ is kind of

Re: [Bloat] [aqm] TSO sizing fixes and the new paced fq scheduler in Linux 3.12

2013-09-28 Thread Dave Taht
On Sep 25, 2013 9:58 AM, Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 17:38 +0200, Luca MUSCARIELLO wrote: Then, I feel like FQ is a bad name to call this newFQ. It's an implementation of a fair TCP pacer. Which is very useful, but FQ is kind of misleading, IMHO. No

Re: [Bloat] [aqm] TSO sizing fixes and the new paced fq scheduler in Linux 3.12

2013-09-25 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 14:25 +0200, James Roberts wrote: No one responded to Luca's Sept 1 comment (on the bloat list) that the new code seems to do tail drop rather than longest queue drop. If this is so, bandwidth sharing will not be fair since FQ alone is not enough. This was shown in

Re: [Bloat] [aqm] TSO sizing fixes and the new paced fq scheduler in Linux 3.12

2013-09-25 Thread Luca MUSCARIELLO
Le 25/09/2013 17:15, Eric Dumazet a écrit : On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 14:25 +0200, James Roberts wrote: No one responded to Luca's Sept 1 comment (on the bloat list) that the new code seems to do tail drop rather than longest queue drop. If this is so, bandwidth sharing will not be fair since FQ

Re: [Bloat] [aqm] TSO sizing fixes and the new paced fq scheduler in Linux 3.12

2013-09-25 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 17:38 +0200, Luca MUSCARIELLO wrote: Then, I feel like FQ is a bad name to call this newFQ. It's an implementation of a fair TCP pacer. Which is very useful, but FQ is kind of misleading, IMHO. No problem, feel free to send a patch. I am very bad at choosing names.