[Bloat] CeroWRT versions

2013-10-12 Thread Aaron Wood
What are the compelling reasons to try versions newer than 3.7.5-2? I'm using a WNDR3800. And I can't seem to find release notes for anything newer than that (but e-mail notifications to the devel mailing list). Thanks, Aaron Wood ___ Blo

Re: [Bloat] [aqm] DOCSIS 3.1 support for AQM

2013-10-31 Thread Aaron Wood
> Thanks for the information. I'd be interested in why you have chosen > PIE, e.g., instead of sfq-CoDel. Any pointers to evaluation > reports/results? Last time I saw a presentation on this it seemed > that CoDel was performing quite well. > I think this cablelabs report makes the argument for PI

Re: [Bloat] mobile broadband buffer bloat

2013-11-01 Thread Aaron Wood
I find the notion of LTE that's faster than DSL somewhat amazing, still. (jealous) -Aaron On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Dave Taht wrote: > > I'm really impressed you can get ~72Mbit down and ~4Mbit up. (closer to 8 >> up when you consider ac

Re: [Bloat] curious.....

2013-12-08 Thread Aaron Wood
> The comment about the WNDR3800 not being able to push this is of course relevant, so I guess we need a better platform if we want to do testing for these higher speeds. One thing that I've noticed a number of newer chipsets doing is moving "network acceleration" into hardware, as a way to get to

Re: [Bloat] pie aqm finally landed in Linux

2014-01-20 Thread Aaron Wood
I'm definitely interested in seeing if the new pie implementation fares better than what I was seeing on 3.10.24-8. -Aaron On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg264935.html > > Hat off to vijay and the pie folk at cisco who shepherded the co

Re: [Bloat] AQM creeping into L2 equipment

2014-03-20 Thread Aaron Wood
> > however what we are probably seeing with the measurement flows is > slow start causing a whole bunch of packets to be lost in a bunch. > That would line up with the timing, and the periodic drops that I see in the flows when using Toke's newer wrapper (and netperf head), which attempt to work

Re: [Bloat] [aqm] the side effects of 330ms lag in the real world

2014-04-29 Thread Aaron Wood
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > > Yes, but as soon as you hit the long distance network the latency is the > > same regardless of access method. So while I agree that understanding the > > effect of latency is important, it's no longer a meaningful way of > selling > > fiber

[Bloat] fq_codel, high bandwidth, and delays

2014-07-07 Thread Aaron Wood
List, In talking with a friend over the weekend that moves data around for the national labs (on links at rates like 10Gbps), we ended up having a rather interesting discussion about just how radically different the problem spaces are vs. what he's seen in the bufferbloat community. They have few

Re: [Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] still trying to find hardware for the next generation worth hacking on

2014-08-18 Thread Aaron Wood
http://www.gateworks.com/product/item/ventana-gw5310-network-processor Out of price range in single units, but I don't know where the price breaks kick in. Dual-core 800MHz ARM should be plenty of power for the GigE ports. I think to get any sort of platform like this by a major vendor, we're lo

[Bloat] Comcast upped service levels -> WNDR3800 can't cope...

2014-08-29 Thread Aaron Wood
Comcast has upped the download rates in my area, from 50Mbps to 100Mbps. This morning I tried to find the limit of the WNDR3800. And I found it. 50Mbps is still well within capabilities, 100Mbps isn't. And as I've seen Dave say previously, it's right around 80Mbps total (download + upload). ht

Re: [Bloat] Comcast upped service levels -> WNDR3800 can't cope...

2014-08-30 Thread Aaron Wood
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Aaron Wood wrote: > > Comcast has upped the download rates in my area, from 50Mbps to 100Mbps. > > This morning I tried to find the limit of the WNDR3800. And I found it. > > 50Mbps

Re: [Bloat] Comcast upped service levels -> WNDR3800 can't cope...

2014-09-01 Thread Aaron Wood
> > But this doesn't really answer the question of why the WNDR has so much > lower a ceiling with shaping than without. The G4 is powerful enough that > the overhead of shaping simply disappears next to the overhead of shoving > data around. Even when I turn up the shaping knob to a value quite

Re: [Bloat] Comcast upped service levels -> WNDR3800 can't cope...

2014-09-01 Thread Aaron Wood
Luckily, I don't mind being wrong (or even _way_ off the mark). I don't think that's it. > > First a nitpick: the PowerBook version of the late-model G4 (7447A) > doesn't have the external L3 cache interface, so it only has the 256KB or > 512KB internal L2 cache (I forget which). The desktop ver

Re: [Bloat] Comcast upped service levels -> WNDR3800 can't cope...

2014-09-02 Thread Aaron Wood
> > What this makes me realize is that I should go instrument the cpu stats > with each of the various operating modes: > > * no shaping, anywhere > * egress shaping > * egress and ingress shaping at various limited levels: > * 10Mbps > * 20Mbps > * 50Mbps > * 100Mbps > So I set th

Re: [Bloat] Comcast upped service levels -> WNDR3800 can't cope...

2014-09-03 Thread Aaron Wood
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > Given that the CPU load is confirmed as high, the pcap probably isn't as > useful. The rest would be interesting to look at. > > Are you able to test with smaller packet sizes? That might help to > isolate packet-throughput (ie. connecti

Re: [Bloat] Two d-link products tested for bloat...

2015-02-19 Thread Aaron Wood
Perhaps just a wall of shame? No venom, just point out the failings, and call people out. But, frankly, I don't think any of the router mfr's actually care (I've seen no evidence of it), and since they're not in the business of actually making these things (just putting their labels on them), I d

Re: [Bloat] Bufferbloat and the policy debate on packet loss in nanog

2015-03-01 Thread Aaron Wood
But until the silicon vendors update _their_ forks of OpenWRT, commercially available home routers won't have these benefits. Because the home router market is dominated by packaged reference designs from one of a very small number of companies that actually make all the chipsets (Dave, I know you

Re: [Bloat] capturing packets and applying qdiscs

2015-03-27 Thread Aaron Wood
I do this often at work, using a separate machine to capture traffic using wireshark. Wireshark makes a lot of the analysis fairly straightforward (especially with it's excellent packet dissectors). By capturing in radiotap mode, you get RSSI/noise levels on the 802.11n packet, the rates involved

Re: [Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] capturing packets and applying qdiscs

2015-03-27 Thread Aaron Wood
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Richard Smith wrote: > Using horst I've discovered that the major reason our WiFi network sucks > is because 90% of the packets are sent at the 6mbit rate. Most of the rest > show up in the 12 and 24mbit zone with a tiny fraction of them using the > higher MCS ra

Re: [Bloat] DSLReports Speed Test has latency measurement built-in

2015-04-19 Thread Aaron Wood
Toke, I actually tend to see a bit higher latency with ICMP at the higher percentiles. http://burntchrome.blogspot.com/2014/05/fixing-bufferbloat-on-comcasts-blast.html http://burntchrome.blogspot.com/2014/05/measured-bufferbloat-on-orangefr-dsl.html Although the biggest "boost" I've seen ICMP g

Re: [Bloat] DSLReports Speed Test has latency measurement built-in

2015-04-21 Thread Aaron Wood
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:13 PM, jb wrote: > Today I've switched it back to large receive window max. > > The customer base is everything from GPRS to gigabit. But I know from > experience that if a test doesn't flatten someones gigabit connection they > will immediately assume "oh congested serv

Re: [Bloat] extremely good dslreports result for bufferbloat on free.fr

2015-05-02 Thread Aaron Wood
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:10 PM, jb wrote: > Already users are like "how can i fix this!". > > I've just replied to one who has lower speeds on the surfboard SB6141 > which is a modem designed for crazy cable speeds. He has an "F" and his > downstream bloat is terrible, and upstream not much bett

Re: [Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] heisenbug: dslreports 16 flow test vs cablemodems

2015-05-14 Thread Aaron Wood
ICMP prioritization over TCP? > >Ideas? > ___ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat

Re: [Bloat] [Cake] dslreports and inbound rate shaping

2015-05-21 Thread Aaron Wood
But will it trigger at all? If the inbound rate is say 50Mbps, and the link to the in-home devices are over 100Mbps ethernet, will codel _ever_ see a 5ms buffer on inbound? Or is the shaping buffering incoming packets, and creating a bundle that it can measure? (I don't know the internals of how

[Bloat] sqm-scripts on WRT1900AC

2015-05-23 Thread Aaron Wood
All, I've been lurking on the OpenWRT forum, looking to see when the CC builds for the WRT1900AC stabilized, and they seem to be so (for a very "beta"-ish version of stable). So I went ahead and loaded up the daily ( CHAOS CALMER (Bleeding Edge, r45715)). After getting Luci and sqm-scripts insta

Re: [Bloat] sqm-scripts on WRT1900AC

2015-05-23 Thread Aaron Wood
May 23, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Aaron Wood wrote: > All, > > I've been lurking on the OpenWRT forum, looking to see when the CC builds > for the WRT1900AC stabilized, and they seem to be so (for a very "beta"-ish > version of stable). > > So I went ahead and loaded u

Re: [Bloat] sqm-scripts on WRT1900AC

2015-05-23 Thread Aaron Wood
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > > And it has a fan. Hate fans. Amusingly (I guess), I had this same > chipset to fiddle with in the "mirabox" and it ran wy too hot. > I haven't hit the fan, yet > It is not clear why you are getting an inaccurate rate out of it, eit

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-04 Thread Aaron Wood
What about the link type? If there are extra overheads going on, that's going to muck with the calculations (possibly adding latency, but shouldn't be cutting bandwidth), since the throttling calculations will be wrong. His ISP may be able to help with that. It would be interesting to see what wo

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Aaron Wood
Huh, those results are rather different from mine when I had free.fr: http://burntchrome.blogspot.com/2014/01/bufferbloat-or-lack-thereof-on-freefr.html -Aaron On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > 63% F bloat grade for > http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/isp/r3895-Orang

Re: [Bloat] Hardware upticks

2016-01-05 Thread Aaron Wood
'5Gbps system throughput "without taxing the CPU,"' Lots of offloads? On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > This looks potentially interesting: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/05/broadcom_pimps_iot_router_chip/ > > Even if that particular device turns out to be hard t

Re: [Bloat] doing better videoconferencing and voip emulation and analysis?

2016-02-12 Thread Aaron Wood
scapy (python) should be able to keep up with a voip or video stream. I've been using it to parse packets and do some other manipulations. It's certainly not C, performance-wise, but it's incredibly flexible at the protocol manipulation level. The performance issues that I'm running into with it

Re: [Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] USB3 or HDMI ethernet? - Are wires dead?

2016-04-18 Thread Aaron Wood
Un-bloated power-line-to-AP units would be awesome. As would power-line to POE adapters for small electronics. Although you have the same difficulty with on-boarding there that you do with wifi. -Aaron Wood On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > > On 18 Apr, 20

Re: [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] graphing airtime fairness in wifi

2016-04-19 Thread Aaron Wood
What about a strip-chart with multiple lanes for every device. Then use either a line graph or a spectrograph (color of band) style marking to show data rate used at that time. If the main goal is fairness and airtime, then the eye can visually compute that based on how evenly spread out the slic

Re: [Bloat] are anyone playing with dpdk and vpp?

2016-04-27 Thread Aaron Wood
I'm looking at DPDK for a project, but I think I can make substantial gains with just AF_PACKET + FANOUT and SO_REUSEPORT. It's not clear to my yet how much DPDK is going to gain over those (and those can go a long way on higher-powered platforms). On lower-end systems, I'm more suspicious of the

Re: [Bloat] [Cake] are anyone playing with dpdk and vpp?

2016-04-27 Thread Aaron Wood
> where the tx and rx rings are cleaned up in the same thread and there > is only one interrupt line for both. > > 51: 18 59244 253350 314273 PCI-MSI > 1572865-edge enp3s0-TxRx-0 > 52: 5 484274 141746 197260 PCI-MSI > 1572866-edge enp3s0-T

[Bloat] Intel recommends against LRO in routing and bridging.

2016-08-08 Thread Aaron Wood
Just came across this at the top of the README for the ixgbe driver: ( http://downloadmirror.intel.com/22919/eng/README.txt) WARNING: The ixgbe driver compiles by default with the LRO (Large Receive Offload) feature enabled. This option offers the lowest CPU utilization for receives, but is comp

[Bloat] iperf3 and packet bursts

2016-09-20 Thread Aaron Wood
imum rate after congestion has stopped it from achieving the target rate. There will be another writeup on that, but I need to get some good sample data together for graphing. -Aaron Wood ___ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat

Re: [Bloat] iperf3 and packet bursts

2016-09-20 Thread Aaron Wood
nd I've always > worried about iperf's internal notion of a sampling interval. > > On 9/20/16 3:00 PM, Aaron Wood wrote: > > I modified iperf3 to use a 1ms timer, and was able to get things much > > smoother. I doubt it's as smooth as iperf3 gets on Linux when fq

Re: [Bloat] "BBR" TCP patches submitted to linux kernel

2016-09-29 Thread Aaron Wood
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Dave Täht wrote: > > > On 9/29/16 4:24 AM, Mário Sérgio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > > Is there a mailing list I can lurk in to follow on the development? > > > > I'm most interested on a delta to apply to Android 6.x Franco Kernel > > (https://github.com/francisco

Re: [Bloat] "BBR" TCP patches submitted to linux kernel

2016-09-29 Thread Aaron Wood
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Dave Täht wrote: > > > Android is still shipping linux 3.10? How... quaint. > > > > Since this is mobile, I'm pretty sure it will present a whole new host > > of "data points". > > yes! (there have been a few studies of this, btw) > > The part that we don't re

Re: [Bloat] "BBR" TCP patches submitted to linux kernel

2016-09-30 Thread Aaron Wood
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Aaron Wood wrote: > > While you think 3.10 is old, in my experience it's still seen as cutting >> edge by many. RHEL is still only at 3.10. And routers are using much >> older 3.x ke

Re: [Bloat] iperf3 and packet bursts

2016-10-20 Thread Aaron Wood
bucket intervals). The branch is here: https://github.com/woody77/iperf/tree/pacing_timer -Aaron On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Aaron Wood wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Dave Täht wrote: > >> Groovy. I note that I am really fond of the linux "fdtimer" not

Re: [Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] Comcast's NANOG slides re Bufferbloat posted (Oct 2016)

2016-10-20 Thread Aaron Wood
I need to box my test unit up and return it, but my area has 160/12 service if you get the upgraded rates (which I do) -Aaron On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:48 Klatsky, Carl wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Rich Brown wrote: > > > https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/20160922_Klatsky_First_Steps >

Re: [Bloat] 22 seconds til bloat on gfiber?

2016-10-27 Thread Aaron Wood
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:30 PM, David Lang wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Dave Taht wrote: > >> >> I am increasingly convinced that without a killer application that >> requires it, >> we've hit "peak bandwidth". >> > > You sound like my College Professor from the early 90's who said that the >

Re: [Bloat] 22 seconds til bloat on gfiber?

2016-10-27 Thread Aaron Wood
> Take, for example, the over-optimistic fiber build-out that > essentially terminated in 2000 - it's taken 16 years to use all that > up > That sounds like it was in the right ballpark. Trenching is so expensive, only doing it every couple decades sounds like a reasonable plan (even better i

Re: [Bloat] Fixing bufferbloat in 2017

2016-11-26 Thread Aaron Wood
> 5) But I'm not hopeful that any of the COTS router vendors are going to > adopt these techniques, simply because they've been impervious to our > earlier entreaties. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try again - it'd be a > helluva competitive advantage to incorporate the 25-50 man years of intense

Re: [Bloat] TCP BBR paper is now generally available

2016-12-02 Thread Aaron Wood
This is really fascinating reading. The following made me stop for a second, though: "The bucket is typically full at connection startup so BBR learns the underlying network's BtlBw, but once the bucket empties, all packets sent faster than the (much lower than BtlBw) bucket fill rate are dropped

Re: [Bloat] Reasons to prefer netperf vs iperf?

2016-12-04 Thread Aaron Wood
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Rich Brown > wrote: > > As I browse the web, I see several sets of performance measurement using > either netperf or iperf, and never know if either offers an advantage. > > > > I know Flent uses netperf by defaul

[Bloat] Marvell status?

2016-12-09 Thread Aaron Wood
What's the current status of the fq 802.11 work with respect to the Marvell chipsets (88W8864). I'd like to switch my WRT1900AC over to LEDE and get this feature set into testing at home. Thanks, Aaron ___ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net

Re: [Bloat] flent testers wanted prior to next release

2016-12-20 Thread Aaron Wood
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > Active public servers include: > > flent-freemont.bufferbloat.net > ( this is colocated with flent-bbr-west which has bbr on by default - an > interesting test might be testing both these servers at the same time > via the rtt_fair* tests from

Re: [Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] flent testers wanted prior to next release

2016-12-20 Thread Aaron Wood
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > My biggest bug bear is that reliance on netperf/netserver with -DEMO mode > compilation time flag breaks compilation on recent RHEL and Fedora boxes > due to recent GCC incompatibilities. > I ran into some issues on OSX due to the gc

Re: [Bloat] speed - on dslreports?

2017-01-10 Thread Aaron Wood
I've been seeing that as well, not sure what to make of it. On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 13:34 Dave Taht wrote: > This is from the first distanc-y test of the latest lede (lacking wifi > ATF tho) on a picostation M2HP, about the lowest end wifi router I > have in the field. > > It's just as lovely as

[Bloat] I have a new record for bloat

2017-01-31 Thread Aaron Wood
This is wifi tethering from my OSX laptop to my iPhone, right after the laptop tried to reconnect to the iphone after waking up. 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=42907.196 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=41922.290 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=40971

[Bloat] sch_fq pacing rate: Xbps, but at which layer in the network stack?

2017-04-13 Thread Aaron Wood
When I was testing with my iPerf changes, I realized that the sch_fq pacing (which in iperf is set via setsockopt()), is pacing at a bandwidth that's set at a pretty low level in the stack (which makes sense). This is different from the application pacing that iperf does (which is pacing the goodp

Re: [Bloat] sch_fq pacing rate: Xbps, but at which layer in the network stack?

2017-04-14 Thread Aaron Wood
for an application? -Aaron On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:00 Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 20:12 -0700, Aaron Wood wrote: > > When I was testing with my iPerf changes, I realized that the sch_fq > > pacing (which in iperf is set via setsockopt()), is pacing at a > >

Re: [Bloat] different speeds on different ports? (benchmarking fun)

2017-09-21 Thread Aaron Wood
s many streams from different servers to achieve these > speeds. > > I’m assuming flent is a single stream, so you’re at the mercy of TCP > receive windows and latency limiting how fast you can go on that single > stream. > > > > *From:* Bloat [mailto:bloat-boun...@lists.b

Re: [Bloat] different speeds on different ports? (benchmarking fun)

2017-09-21 Thread Aaron Wood
that it's something about that node in particular. It seems to have a 125Mbps cap (so I guess about a 140-150Mbps line-rate cap?). What kind of node is it running on? On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Aaron Wood wrote: > I'd wondered about single vs. multiple, but I'm getting pre

Re: [Bloat] different speeds on different ports? (benchmarking fun)

2017-09-22 Thread Aaron Wood
21, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Aaron Wood wrote: > The friend of mine that I've been working with brought up a cloud node > somewhere with ubuntu and netperf on it, and from another location > (business internet) able to consistently get better throughput from his > cloud node setup th

[Bloat] fremont flent node: what's the network setup there?

2017-10-04 Thread Aaron Wood
I'm comparing some numbers between the fremont node and a friend's Droplet running netserver. We've previous noted that we don't see more than a 120Mbps download rate from the fremont node. Today I was able to confirm in multiple back-to-back runs that the fremont node was only giving me about 12

Re: [Bloat] Bufferbloat in high resolution + non-stationarity

2017-11-27 Thread Aaron Wood
For the graphs, it would be great for f they were using a normalize output that allows for easy comparisons between runs. Especially the y axis for the “all” graph. On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 15:55 Dave Taht wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Martin Geddes > wrote: > > Hi Toke, > > > > The t

Re: [Bloat] The Blind Men and the Elephant.

2018-02-12 Thread Aaron Wood
I'd focus on the distributors of the Linux BSP used on those routers: the silicon vendors themselves. Current routers shouldn't be shipping with 3.2 kernels, or even 3.10, and yet... ::sigh:: I find it very frustrating they they fork the kernel for their own use, instead of maintaining patches

Re: [Bloat] first bufferbloat free cablemodem?

2018-10-07 Thread Aaron Wood
Maybe he's on a DOCSIS 3.1 headend that's also using pie? Pie doesn't need to know the outbound rate, correct? as it's meant to be driven by the RTS/CTS type behavior that the upstream traffic on cable has (the correct terms for cable aren't coming to mind at the moment). On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at

Re: [Bloat] openvswitch usage in the wild?

2019-06-07 Thread Aaron Wood
I also know of commercial product(s) using it internally. On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 4:03 PM Bruce Ferrell wrote: > On 6/7/19 1:23 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > > what is openvswitch used for nowadays? > > > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2015-March/296317.html > > > I haven't done it mys

[Bloat] Still seeing bloat with a DOCSIS 3.1 modem

2020-03-24 Thread Aaron Wood
I recently upgraded service from 150up, 10dn Mbps to xfinity's gigabit (with 35Mbps up) tier, and picked up a DOCSIS 3.1 modem to go with it. Flent test results are here: https://burntchrome.blogspot.com/2020/03/bufferbloat-with-comcast-gigabit-with.html tl/dr; 1000ms of upstream bufferbloat Bu

Re: [Bloat] Still seeing bloat with a DOCSIS 3.1 modem

2020-03-24 Thread Aaron Wood
(hit send early, somehow)... Although this thread makes we wonder if perhaps not: https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cake/2018-August/004285.html On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:01 PM Aaron Wood wrote: > I recently upgraded service from 150up, 10dn Mbps to xfinity's gigabit > (wit

Re: [Bloat] Still seeing bloat with a DOCSIS 3.1 modem

2020-03-25 Thread Aaron Wood
> > >>> But it's DOCSIS 3.1, so why isn't PIE working? Theory: It's in > DOCSIS 3.0 > >>> upstream mode based on the status LEDs. Hopefully it will go away if > I can > >>> convince it to run in DOCSIS 3.1 mode. > >> > >> I think that while PIE is "mandatory to implement" in DOCSIS 3.1, the > >>

Re: [Bloat] Still seeing bloat with a DOCSIS 3.1 modem

2020-03-25 Thread Aaron Wood
e router and the APs up). > On March 25, 2020 6:29:17 AM GMT+01:00, Matt Taggart > wrote: >> >> On 3/24/20 10:01 PM, Aaron Wood wrote: >> >> I recently got CenturyLink gig fiber and bought one of these: >> >> Qotom Q355G4 >> https://www.amazon.com/gp/p

Re: [Bloat] Still seeing bloat with a DOCSIS 3.1 modem

2020-03-25 Thread Aaron Wood
7;t likely to all be elephants. On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:03 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > Sebastian Moeller writes: > > > Hi Toke, > > > > > >> On Mar 25, 2020, at 09:58, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > >> > >> Aaron Wood writes: > &g

Re: [Bloat] some sqm and cpu performance numbers for a variety of devices

2020-03-28 Thread Aaron Wood
40 AM Dave Taht wrote: > > https://forum.openwrt.org/t/comparative-throughput-testing-including-nat-sqm-wireguard-and-openvpn/44724/44 > > (H/T to aaron wood) > > The post persistently points out that openvpn tends to optimize for > one direction only. This is in part due to th

Re: [Bloat] fcc's coronovirus guidelines

2020-03-28 Thread Aaron Wood
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 7:30 AM Sebastian Moeller wrote: > > > On Mar 27, 2020, at 22:41, Dave Taht wrote: > > > > "put everyone on a schedule"... sigh > > Sorry to disagree a bit, but I consider this to be conceptually > decent advice. If a problem can be avoided by a simple behavioral

Re: [Bloat] Still seeing bloat with a DOCSIS 3.1 modem

2020-03-28 Thread Aaron Wood
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:18 PM Dave Taht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 8:58 AM Aaron Wood wrote: > > > > One other thought I've had with this, is that the apu2 is multi-core, > and the i210 is multi-queue. > > > > Cake/htb aren't, iirc, set

Re: [Bloat] Still seeing bloat with a DOCSIS 3.1 modem

2020-03-29 Thread Aaron Wood
ve the interfaces, but not the energy to deal with the troubleshooting. I think I still have an old WNDR3700 in a box somewhere that I could prep as a backup, but I'd rather not go through the hassle. > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 8:58 AM Aaron Wood wrote: > > > > One other thought

[Bloat] New board that looks interesting

2020-04-03 Thread Aaron Wood
https://www.seeedstudio.com/ODYSSEY-X86J4105800-p-4445.html quad-core Celeron J4105 1.5-2.5 GHz x64 8GB Ram 2x i211t intel ethernet controllers intel 9560 802.11ac (wave2) wifi/bluetooth chipset intel built-in graphics onboard ARM Cortex-M0 and RPi & Arduino headers m.2 and PCIe adapters <$200 ___

Re: [Bloat] [Cake] New board that looks interesting

2020-04-04 Thread Aaron Wood
his board. > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 7:47 AM David P. Reed wrote: > > > > Thanks! I ordered one just now. In my experience, this company does > rather neat stuff. Their XMOS based microphone array (ReSpeaker) is really > useful. What's the state of play in Linux/Ope

Re: [Bloat] BBR implementations, knobs to turn?

2020-11-30 Thread Aaron Wood
> > The CPE side has met willingness to investigate these issues from early > on, but it seems that buffer handling is much harder on CPE chipsets > than on base station chipsets. In particular on 5G. We have had some > very good results on 4G, but they do not translate to 5G. > My own experienc

Re: [Bloat] [Cake] New board that looks interesting

2020-12-18 Thread Aaron Wood
;t determined how long it will take to thermally throttle, and if bandwidth suffers as a result. Pretty happy with it so far, though. On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 7:46 PM Dave Taht wrote: > anyone got around to hacking on this board yet? > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 9:27 AM Aaron Wood wrote: > &

Re: [Bloat] pquic + fq_codel + lowrtt + multipath

2020-12-20 Thread Aaron Wood
Those are great results. I've been thinking for a while that algorithms / techniques like fq-codel would be great if packaged into library form where they could be utilized by application-layers. Obviously, not all application-layer queues can deal with loss like TCP, but for all those that can,

Re: [Bloat] Robert X. Cringley: Wi-Fi 6 & Bufferbloat

2021-02-08 Thread Aaron Wood
I'm continually frustrated that my cable headend appears to be using DOCSIS 3.1 for downstream, and 3.0 for upstream. Which means my Arris SB8200 isn't using PIE, but the standard FIFO (Gigabit down, 35Mbps up). Cake to the rescue. With a celeron based router (x86-64), I'm hitting line-rate with

Re: [Bloat] fcc input

2021-03-26 Thread Aaron Wood
I'm still surprised at how hard it is to get people to understand that the problem they're having (especially with real-time video like Zoom) isn't bandwidth, but jitter and bloat... On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:52 PM Jonathan Foulkes wrote: > Agreed, we need to be more vocal. > > I did look up my

Re: [Bloat] Netperf re-licensed as MIT

2021-03-29 Thread Aaron Wood
iperf3 isn’t “academic”, but is more focused on scientific computing (ESNet pushes a LOT of data CERN around, on 100Gbps backbones). But that also skews their usage/needs. Very high throughput bulk transfers with long durations, over mixed systems. Not as many concerns about latency, except in th

Re: [Bloat] Netperf re-licensed as MIT

2021-03-29 Thread Aaron Wood
One of my long concerns with the RRUL test is that the ICMP ping test portion is not isochronous, and runs at a variable rate based on rtt, which means that it uses more/less bandwidth as an inverse function of rtt, and that makes it harder to compare the actual goodput of the tcp streams running i

Re: [Bloat] Terminology for Laypeople

2021-05-16 Thread Aaron Wood
I think the "I Love Lucy" chocolate factory scene is perhaps a good analogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmAwcMNxGqM The chocolates start to come in too fast, and they can't keep up, but because they aren't telling the kitchen to slow down, they keep piling up until it collapses into a mess.

Re: [Bloat] AQM & Net Neutrality

2021-05-28 Thread Aaron Wood
I think one of the big advantages that AQM has is that it doesn't know, or care, who the flow is. It can't, itself, violate NN concerns because it has no knowledge with which to do so. Instead, it punishes the greed flows that try to use more than their fair share of the available bandwidth. It

Re: [Bloat] Really getting 1G out of ISP?

2021-07-06 Thread Aaron Wood
Are these in-flux changes to where the upstream split is why some modems report DOCSIS 3.1 downstream, but only 3.0 upstream? (and therefore aren't enabling AQM on the upstream?) -Aaron On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 4:04 PM Livingood, Jason via Bloat < bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > > For DOCS

Re: [Bloat] Really getting 1G out of ISP?

2021-07-06 Thread Aaron Wood
I'm running an Odyssey from Seeed Studios (celeron J4125 with dual i211), and it can handle Cake at 1Gbps on a single core (which it needs to, because OpenWRT's i211 support still has multiple receive queues disabled). On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:44 AM Giuseppe De Luca wrote: > Also a PC Engines

Re: [Bloat] Really getting 1G out of ISP?

2021-07-06 Thread Aaron Wood
ems regardless of the US > mode in use (ie sc-qam (3.0) or ofdma (3.1) upstream), so it should be > enabled. > > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> > > ------ > *From:* Bloat on behalf of Aaron > Wood > *Sent:* Tuesday, Ju

Re: [Bloat] Really getting 1G out of ISP?

2021-07-06 Thread Aaron Wood
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 7:26 PM Dave Taht wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 3:32 PM Aaron Wood wrote: > > > > I'm running an Odyssey from Seeed Studios (celeron J4125 with dual > i211), and it can handle Cake at 1Gbps on a single core (which it needs to, > because OpenWR

Re: [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-17 Thread Aaron Wood
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 1:32 PM Ben Greear wrote: > UDP is better for getting actual packet latency, for sure. TCP is > typical-user-experience-latency though, > so it is also useful. > > I'm interested in the test and visualization side of this. If there were > a way to give engineers > a good

Re: [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

2021-07-17 Thread Aaron Wood
With the disclaimer that I'm not as strong in statistics and modelling as I'd like to be I think it's not useful to attempt to stochastically model the behavior of what are actually active (well, reactive) components. The responses of each piece are deterministic, but the inputs (users) are n

Re: [Bloat] Of interest: Comcast AQM Paper

2021-07-31 Thread Aaron Wood
If we see that AQM appears to be not functioning as expected for upstream connections on DOCSIS3.1, what's the right avenue for getting that resolved? (and does that only apply to the Comcast-owned, vs. customer-owned, modems?) On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 10:50 AM Simon Barber wrote: > Awesome to h

Re: [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] [Starlink] [Cake] [Cerowrt-devel] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-08-08 Thread Aaron Wood
My own experiments with this, in the past (5+ years ago), was that you absolutely had to use cabled setups for repeatability, but then didn't have enough randomness in the variability to really test anything that was problematic. We could create hidden nodes, or arbitrary meshes of devices, but th

Re: [Bloat] ONTs and ITU - T G.988

2022-01-12 Thread Aaron Wood
Can't switches send pause frames back over ethernet? /me googles, and finds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_flow_control On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 4:57 PM Dave Taht wrote: > What appeared to be the case was that a ONT had a 50ms buffer at > 100Mbit and was reconfigured to drive a gig and

Re: [Bloat] making networks virtual

2022-02-09 Thread Aaron Wood
The edge of the datacenter, or the edge as in where a building meets the internet? (either residential or commercial) On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 6:27 AM Dave Taht wrote: > One of the analogies that went by in this interview with nick mckeown > was "programmable cables" and the IPU concept. > > http

Re: [Bloat] Up-to-date buffer sizes?

2022-03-09 Thread Aaron Wood
Are you asking what they _should_ be, or what the typical buffering seen in equipment actually is? On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:39 AM Michael Menth wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't question the usefulness of AQMs for buffers - on the contrary. > But what are up-to-date buffer sizes in networking gears,

[Bloat] "bullwhip" effect - an analogy that applies to TCP and excessive latency

2023-01-29 Thread Aaron Wood via Bloat
I read this earlier in the week, and thought it applied well to describing how excessive latency causes TCP (cubic, reno, etc) overshoot and collapse in bufferbloat situations: https://read.fluxcollective.org/i/98919216/lens-of-the-week -Aaron ___ Bloat

Re: [Bloat] [Rpm] [Starlink] [LibreQoS] On FiWi

2023-03-15 Thread Aaron Wood via Bloat
I like the general idea, especially if there was a site-wide controller module that can do the sort of frequency allocation that network engineers do in dense AP deployments today: adjacent APs run on different frequency bands so that they reduce the likelihood of stepping on each others transmiss

Re: [Bloat] SQM tuning question

2023-06-03 Thread Aaron Wood via Bloat
I’ve found that _usually_ I can set cake’s bandwidth limits to 90-95% of the advertised bandwidth, and everything “just works”. So long as you’re routinely able to achieve the bandwidth, it tends to work. I’ve found in my testing over the years (I’ve been a user of fq_codel since 2013) that limit

Re: [Bloat] [Rpm] receive window bug fix

2023-06-03 Thread Aaron Wood via Bloat
This is good work! I love reading their posts on scale like this. It’s wild to me that the Linux kernel has (apparently) never implemented shrinking the receive window, or handling the case of userspace starting a large transfer and then just not ever reading it… the latter is less surprising, I

Re: [Bloat] mDNS

2024-02-27 Thread Aaron Wood via Bloat
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:52 AM Rich Brown via Bloat < bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > > > On Feb 27, 2024, at 12:00 PM, bloat-requ...@lists.bufferbloat.net wrote: > > On 2/26/2024 6:28 AM, Rich Brown via Bloat wrote: > > - Avoid the WAN port's DHCP assigned subnet (what if the ISP uses > 1