Re: [Bloat] Thoughts on Stochastic Fair Blue

2011-03-24 Thread Dave Taht
Just we've done with debloat-testing, I'd like to have a git tree with all the common shaper scripts in it. We can do it on github, infradead, someone's private domain, etc. suggestion for a name (debloat-shapers)? Location? -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blo

[Bloat] Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit April 6-8?

2011-03-24 Thread Dave Taht
The http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit is a free summit, if anyone here is based in or near San Francisco and can attend... -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com ___ Bloat mailing l

[Bloat] ssh keys wanted if you want on our virtual servers

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Taht
The new build server (huchra.bufferbloat.net) is mostly up, as are a few virtuals for handling things like builds of openwrt, and other mainstream OSes, and overall management of the site. We could use a few helpers in getting the virtuals fully configured and operational (buildbot, hudson, r

Re: [Bloat] debloat-testing tree rebased, some patches dropped

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Taht
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > FYI... > > I have rebased the wireless-testing tree on 2.6.39-rc1.  As previously > stated, I plan to track the -rc and final releases, rebasing on > each -rc1.  The rebase is a little ugly/painful, but it is a good > way to avoid building

[Bloat] Whitefi and Dyson

2011-04-07 Thread Dave Taht
I am attending this Rohan Narayana Murty talk today. Whitefi and Dyson seems interesting. He proposes a mcham "Multi Channel Airtime Metric" for arbitrarily borrowing channel whitespace from the TV spectrum in particular... http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rohan/Overview.html The hardware prototy

[Bloat] Fwd: [NANOG-announce] NANOG 52 CFP Reminder: Slides due 4/11

2011-04-10 Thread Dave Taht
Anyone doing anything for nanog? Original Message Subject:[NANOG-announce] NANOG 52 CFP Reminder: Slides due 4/11 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:24:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Daly To: nanog-annou...@nanog.org NANOG'ers, On Thursday, 4/14, the NANOG Program Committee

[Bloat] FCC issues notice regarding the "need for speed"

2011-04-11 Thread Dave Taht
Constructive comment from bufferbloat-ers would be good! There is a May 26th deadline. Extracted from: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-11-661A1.pdf "This Public Notice seeks input on the particular types of “need for speed”3 information that are most useful to consumers a

Re: [Bloat] Simplified Bloat explanation

2011-04-13 Thread Dave Taht
You may have created an earworm. Everytime I encountered a bug when trying to work with the web interface on the bismark project yesterday, I kept crying out in Desi Arnaz's voice... "LUCII!" http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/80 On 04/12/2011 11:24 PM, Fred Baker wrote: I think it's a

[Bloat] replacing lists.bufferbloat.net

2011-04-14 Thread Dave Taht
The email box crashes reliably every 2 weeks or so, so we are moving it to another server friday. Sorry for the delayed emails to the list(s). I have been traveling too heavily to co-ordinate the change-over before now. Manaña! ___ Bloat mailing lis

[Bloat] ECN blocking router found

2011-04-14 Thread Dave Taht
In my travels this month I have been testing ECN enablement at homes and hotels everywhere I go. Until today, I was able to have the following settings for ECN on my laptop everywhere I've been. net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=1 #net.ipv6.tcp_ecn=0 net.ipv4.tcp_sack=1 net.ipv4.tcp_dsack=1 However, I got to

[Bloat] Big bloat update (6 weeks worth!)

2011-04-17 Thread Dave Taht
I'd intended to write up summaries of bufferbloat related activity once a month, but am running a bit behind. Both JG and I have been travelling heavily. There's been a lot going on under the covers! Probably the biggest news is that we are working with Georgia Tech on their bismark project.

[Bloat] Upgrades to huchra and siwa today

2011-04-25 Thread Dave Taht
I will be performing upgrades and fixes to the bufferbloat web, build and email servers today. Expect periodic outages throughout the afternoon, starting now. ___ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bl

[Bloat] Network computing article on bloat

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Taht
Not bad, although I can live without the title. Coins a new-ish phrase "insertion latency" http://www.networkcomputing.com/end-to-end-apm/bufferbloat-and-the-collapse-of-the-internet.php -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com

Re: [Bloat] Network computing article on bloat

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Taht
, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Dave Hart wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 17:05 UTC, Dave Taht wrote: >> Not bad, although I can live without the title. Coins a new-ish phrase >> "insertion latency" >> >> http://www.networkcomputing.com/end-to-end-apm/bufferbloa

Re: [Bloat] Need more proposals for Linux Plumber's Conference!

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Taht
I will be meeting with jim after his talk at google today, and perhaps we can nail a few ideas to the wall. What did you want your talk to be, john? Ideas: 1) Beating the Bloat - a progress update from the project 2) Latency matters - the real behavior of voip, gaming, dns, arp, etc, under Linu

Re: [Bloat] Network computing article on bloat

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Wesley Eddy wrote: > On 4/26/2011 2:17 PM, Dave Taht wrote: >> >> "Big Buffers Bad. Small Buffers Good." >> >> "*Some* packet loss is essential for the correct operation of the >> Internet" >> >> a

Re: [Bloat] Network computing article on bloat

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Constantine Dovrolis wrote: > Thanks Wes - I was hoping that someone will make this point. > > btw, another common reason for lossless operation is the > size of the flows. basically flows often finish before their > window increases so much that they overflow thei

Re: [Bloat] Need more proposals for Linux Plumber's Conference!

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Taht
2:34 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:29:57PM -0600, Dave Taht wrote: > > I will be meeting with jim after his talk at google today, and perhaps > > we can nail a few ideas to the wall. > > > > What did you want your talk to be, john? > >

Re: [Bloat] slashdot on bufferbloat

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Taht
I was extremely amused to see an actual **ad** just now in my gmail account targetting bufferbloat, which ultimately after making me signup on their website (I gave my usual addresses of a...@asdf.org, etc) Sent me to this: http://media.ciena.com/documents/ActivSpan_4200_Boosts_Competitive_Advan

Re: [Bloat] No ECN marking in IPv6 linux

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Taht
I am curious as to what the correct behavior here should be for encapsulated (6in4, 6to4, teredo) packets, and if this functionality was also borked. I was under the impression that for encapsulated packets the tos field was copied from the encapsulated packet to the ipv4 header. I will make a not

Re: [Bloat] No ECN marking in IPv6 linux

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 6 May, 2011, at 9:14 pm, Dave Taht wrote: > > > I am curious as to what the correct behavior here should be for > encapsulated (6in4, 6to4, teredo) packets, and if this functionality was > also borked. I was unde

[Bloat] A profusion of projects on bufferbloat.net

2011-05-07 Thread Dave Taht
If you have not already joined the wiki for read/write privs, please do so! IF you already have established an account it would help me a lot to get correct privs to you if you would clearly identify your expertise by logging into the web site and filling out the "expertise" field. http://www.buf

[Bloat] ipv6 fe80:: addresses, vlans and bridges... borked?

2011-05-08 Thread Dave Taht
I am modestly stumped as to how to solve this properly. I think it's been causing problems with ipv6 for a long time, but I could be wrong. see http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/126 Basically although the underlying interfaces do have unique mac addresses (for some reason the underlying eth0 inte

Re: [Bloat] No ECN marking in IPv6 linux

2011-05-08 Thread Dave Taht
Final patch found, merged into openwrt (tested on 2.6.38, 2.6.37), and incorporated into the bismark and iscwrt builds. Nice catch. I hope the next round of sfb testing goes much better. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Jonath

Re: [Bloat] ipv6 fe80:: addresses, vlans and bridges... borked?

2011-05-09 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Fred Baker wrote: > > On May 8, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > > > Is there a standard for renaming fe80:: addresses to represent they are > interfacing with different vlans? > > well, yes. Link-local addresses (FE80::/10) areas you s

Re: [Bloat] ipv6 fe80:: addresses, vlans and bridges... borked?

2011-05-09 Thread Dave Taht
Fred/all See http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/126 which has a ip -6 addr and ifconfig dump and see if that "seems right" to you. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Fred Baker wrote: > > On May 9, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:14

[Bloat] Some mqprio documentation

2011-05-09 Thread Dave Taht
There's a new qdisc on the block. Here's some documentation on how it works. -- Forwarded message -- From: John Fastabend Date: Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:22 AM Subject: Re: trying to wrap my head around mqprio To: Dave Taht On 5/8/2011 12:49 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > I

Re: [Bloat] ipv6 fe80:: addresses, vlans and bridges... borked?

2011-05-09 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Fred Baker wrote: > BTW, every time I post nowadays, I get moderated on bismark-devel. Do you > think you could grandfather bloat@ emails? > > I've added you to the bismark-devel list and set nomail on. > On May 9, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Dave

[Bloat] Bismark router + ecn + red tested

2011-05-10 Thread Dave Taht
I did a preliminary test of a bismark router with ECN and red enabled using a lightly modified version of openwrt's (nbd's) qos-scripts, doing a scp upload from my laptop to a server at bufferbloat.net. I artificially throttled the uplink at 1Mbit and downlink to 10Mbit (the measured real values

Re: [Bloat] ipv6 fe80:: addresses, vlans and bridges... borked?

2011-05-10 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Dave Taht said: > > the bridged to a vlan fe80:: addresses are all the same. This strikes me > > as a problem. > > You never reference link-local address by themselves anyway — they are > always referenced with th

Re: [Bloat] Bismark router + ecn + red tested

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Taht
9640 kB > Mapped: 27800 kB > Slab: 9620 kB > SReclaimable: 1388 kB > SUnreclaim: 8232 kB > PageTables: 760 kB > NFS_Unstable:0 kB > Bounce: 0 kB > CommitLimit: 62048 kB > Committed_AS:43156 kB > V

Re: [Bloat] ipv6 fe80:: addresses, vlans and bridges... borked?

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Roland Bless wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On 11.05.2011 05:32, Dave Taht wrote: > > 1) in a wireshark analysis, the %interface part is lost > > But your wireshark is listening on some specific interface, > isn't it? No. It is listening

[Bloat] QoS for mission critical packets on wireless networks

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Taht
I think it would be more useful for me to describe the context behind the fe80:: thread also on this list. In the case of wireless interfaces, very little QoS and packet prioritization has been taking place with the various qdiscs being used. (Linux uses "mq" by default, which is severely underdoc

Re: [Bloat] Burst Loss

2011-05-13 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Rick Jones wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 23:00 -0600, Kevin Gross wrote: > > One of the principal reasons jumbo frames have not been standardized > > is due to latency concerns. I assume this group can appreciate the > > IEEE holding ground on this. > > Thusfar a

Re: [Bloat] Jumbo frames and LAN buffers (was: RE: Burst Loss)

2011-05-13 Thread Dave Taht
t well above 20ms It is astonishing that a switch chip this capable has reached the consumer marketplace... http://realtek.info/pdf/rtl8366s_8366sr_datasheet_vpre-1.4_20071022.pdf And depressing that so few of it's capabilities have software to configure them. > Kevin Gross > > > > *

Re: [Bloat] Jumbo frames and LAN buffers

2011-05-16 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Kevin Gross wrote: > I would like to try this. Can you suggest specific equipment to look at. > Due > to integration and low port count, most of the cheap consumer stuff has > surprisingly good layer-2 performance. I've tested a bunch of Linksys and > other small/

Re: [Bloat] Jumbo frames and LAN buffers (was: RE: Burst Loss)

2011-05-17 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:49 AM, wrote: > (I think) Fred wrote: > > Well, the extra delay is solvable in the transport. The question isn't > really what the impact on the > network is; it's what the requirements of > the application are. For voice, if a voice sample is > > delayed 50 ms the jitte

[Bloat] Applying RED93 in south africa

2011-05-21 Thread Dave Taht
The default qos-scripts for openwrt are being tested in south africa right now as part of the first bismark 'capetown' deployment of a whole bunch of wndr3700v2 routers. Bismark contains extensive debloating of the ar71xx, and ath9k device drivers and shortened txqueues. On the plus side, the qo

Re: [Bloat] Applying RED93 in south africa

2011-05-21 Thread Dave Taht
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 21 May, 2011, at 5:27 pm, Dave Taht wrote: > > > Experience the pain of the Internet on another continent! (note that the > gw is up on ipv6 as well) > > Well, it's not very fast in terms of throughput,

Re: [Bloat] Applying RED93 in south africa

2011-05-28 Thread Dave Taht
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > SFB is also in this release, but lacking good scripts for it... > > SFB is supposed to be self-tuning, so it should be enough to say > something like: > > #!/bin/sh > set -e > > if=${1:-eth0} > > tc -s qdisc del root dev $if 2>/dev

[Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

2011-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
So after my experiments [1] yesterday with the wndr3700v2 hardware[2], I came away even more convinced that the wireless world and the wired worlds should not be bridged together. All the AQMs out there assume that it takes the same period of time to deliver a packet consisting of X bytes to the n

Re: [Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

2011-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 29 May, 2011, at 4:23 pm, Dave Taht wrote: > > > In my last 2 months of travel, I have seen multicast packets, such as > ARP, DHCP, MDNS, and now babel, all failing far, far, far more often than is > desirable.

Re: [Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

2011-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > Result - 130+Mbit performance on iperf on the lan (up from 60Mbit), > > which is still pretty low > > Are you seeing high CPU load in interrupt context? (Run top.) > > Yes. 99% sirq. Screenshot: http://www.bufferbloat.net/attachmen

Re: [Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

2011-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > And the irony is that the lower speed is specifically chosen for > > multicast in order to make sure all clients in range can hear them > > reliably. > > It was my understanding that it was done for compatibility with older > devices,

Re: [Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

2011-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > >> Are you seeing high CPU load in interrupt context? (Run top.) > > > Yes. 99% sirq. > > Could be due to a simplistic Ethernet driver. If you have the time and > energy, you may want to ask on dev.openwrt.org. > > I will have some ene

Re: [Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

2011-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
sorry, I meant to reply all. Thanks for so quickly seeing the real cause of the upper limit. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > > > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek > wrote: > >> >> Are you seeing high CPU load in interrupt conte

Re: [Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

2011-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
The datasheet has insufficient detail, and yet the switch seems enormously >> capable, at least in theory. The kind of numbers under load I've seen thus >> far (ranging from .9ms to 170ms) suggest port starvation. >> >> http://realtek.info/pdf/rtl8366s_8366sr_datasheet_vpre-1.4_20071022.pdf >> > In

Re: [Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

2011-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le dimanche 29 mai 2011 à 10:07 -0600, Dave Taht a écrit : > > > > > > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek > > wrote: > > >> Are you seeing high CPU load in i

Re: [Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

2011-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le dimanche 29 mai 2011 à 11:02 -0600, Dave Taht a écrit : > > > The kernel being used in capetown[1] is 2.6.37.6. - patched forward > > from 2.6.39 for the pfifo ecn bug, the ipv6 ecn bug, and several other > > bu

Re: [Bloat] philosophical question

2011-05-30 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:24 PM, George B. wrote: > Ok, say I have a network with no over subscription in my net. I'd love to see one of those. Can I get on it? > I have > 10G to the internet but am only using about 2G of that. This is the > server side of a network talking to millions of c

Re: [Bloat] philosophical question

2011-05-30 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:29 AM, George B. wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:24 PM, George B. wrote: > >> > >> Ok, say I have a network with no over subscription in my net. > > >

[Bloat] seeing ESP, ECN, DSCP... working...

2011-06-06 Thread Dave Taht
Seeing ECN and DSCP in an ESP ipsec tunnel of a TCP stream, with all the inner DSCP/ECN bits preserved on the outer packet, going from here (FL) to gatech through a doubly natted tunnel via strongswan... ...gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling that I have been lacking of late, about the health of the

[Bloat] Notes about hacking on AQMs

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Taht
So in addition to hacking on the switch, I've been poking into the behavior of multiple AQM systems in the kernel, ranging from the wondershaper, to the adsl-shaper, to the qos-scripts in openwrt. I started off with something ambitious, which was to try and implement a complete implementation of d

Re: [Bloat] Notes about hacking on AQMs

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Taht
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 06:12 -0600, Dave Taht a écrit : > > > SFQ is the second most commonly used qdisc, but doesn't balance in > > ways ESFQ could. > > > > ESFQ really looked like a winner and I

Re: [Bloat] Notes about hacking on AQMs

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Taht
ification that has not been done to date. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > >> Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 06:12 -0600, Dave Taht a écrit : >> >> > SFQ is the second most commonly used qdisc

Re: [Bloat] Notes about hacking on AQMs

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Taht
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 08:04 -0600, Dave Taht a écrit : > > It looks like adding ECN to the other qdiscs would be good, and > > transparent to the upper layers, but a 10 minute glance at HTB seems > > to make it a

Re: [Bloat] Notes about hacking on AQMs

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Taht
I agree that the new (1997) solution for SFQ, embedding the > Sorry, meant 2007. -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com ___ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/

Re: [Bloat] Notes about hacking on AQMs

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Taht
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 11:27 -0400, Jesper Dangaard Brouer a écrit : > >> While this is a good coding approach, the end result is that nobody is >> using this stuff, because "tc" is so difficult to use, and its error >> feedback is so lousy

Re: [Bloat] Notes about hacking on AQMs

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Taht
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 09:51 -0600, Dave Taht a écrit : > >> >> And they are *all* wrong to varying extents, which is why I like the >> 'mondo classifier' idea for DSCP+firewalling mentioned earlie

[Bloat] Some updates on hacking on AQMS

2011-06-09 Thread Dave Taht
I'm going to make some notes against my original posting 'Some notes on hacking on AQM's' here, because in less than a day, much progress been made. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > So in addition to hacking on the switch, I've been poking into the

[Bloat] Three new diffserv codepoints suggested

2011-06-11 Thread Dave Taht
Before I go to the trouble of writing up an RFC, I thought perhaps here (and the end-to-end list) would be a good place to discuss some ideas towards adding 3 new codepoints to diffserv, in an enhancement to rfc4594[1] - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4594 I've named them with something of a sense

Re: [Bloat] Three new diffserv codepoints suggested

2011-06-11 Thread Dave Taht
So I sat down and took the fragments of various qos scripts I'd been fiddling with, and came up with a diffserv classifier (doesn't do qos or cope with nat yet) that matches a great deal of traffic somewhat sanely (notably 'IT', 'mice', and ipv6). It should work on any linux box, as well as openwrt

Re: [Bloat] Three new diffserv codepoints suggested

2011-06-13 Thread Dave Taht
trying to move Linux forward from 1998... > > On 11 Jun 2011, at 16:15, Dave Taht wrote: > >> I was unable to come up with a back-acronym for 'mice'. I got as >> far as 'majorly important' before getting stuck on the 'c'. > -- Dave Täht SKYP

[Bloat] doesn't look like we made a track at linux plumbers

2011-06-13 Thread Dave Taht
:( But: http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Summits/Vancouver-2011 In mid-august, looks more apt, followed by linuxcon. We are also getting close to a point where it would be fun and informative to be testing debloated routers at scale, too. Can we still get in this conference? -- Dave Tä

Re: [Bloat] doesn't look like we made a track at linux plumbers

2011-06-13 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:32 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 09:08:13AM -0600, Dave Taht wrote: >> :( > > This is news to me (and I'm on the program committee) -- where did > you hear this? Didn't see it in the approved tracks. > >> B

[Bloat] unbelievably cheap 2.4ghz wireless spectrum analyzer

2011-06-15 Thread Dave Taht
http://ubnt.com/airview I'm about to order one. Heck, I might order a couple. I've been trying to track down an elusive bug in 802.11e handling for days. -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com ___ Bloat ma

[Bloat] wireless software retry with ECN?

2011-06-15 Thread Dave Taht
When you have to retry sending a packet in swretry at a wireless driver (mac802.11?) level, marking it as 'congested' seems to make sense. If you are going to make heroic efforts to deliver packets in the first place, you might as well tell the receiver of your heroism. While retry is normal, eve

Re: [Bloat] unbelievably cheap 2.4ghz wireless spectrum analyzer

2011-06-15 Thread Dave Taht
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: > * Dave Taht | 2011-06-15 07:24:33 [-0600]: > >>http://ubnt.com/airview >> >>I'm about to order one. Heck, I might order a couple. I've been trying to >>track down an elusive bug in 802.11e handli

Re: [Bloat] debloat-testing rebased (3.0-rc3-db)

2011-06-17 Thread Dave Taht
Well there is a lot of stuff that has been fed into 2.6.39 and later that came from the debloating work. In particular ECN and DSCP should 'just work' now under all circumstances (or so I hope) on both ipv6 and ipv4. So at the moment, debloat-testing is looking rather bare, but it's been surving a

[Bloat] the chaotic nature of tcp congestion control

2011-06-21 Thread Dave Taht
While searching for a paper I remember reading back in the early 90s about self similarity in network streams I stumbled across this http://www.ceid.upatras.gr/faculty/manos/courses/highspeednets/2006/papers/veres00chaotic.pdf I'm hoping what I was actually looking for is in the cites, but this p

Re: [Bloat] Notes about hacking on AQMs

2011-06-23 Thread Dave Taht
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> I will also attempt to argue persuasively that having ECN packet marking in >> HTB > > I'm not following you.  You can only perform ECN marking when you detect > congestion; and you can only detect congestion if you're queueing. > I ma

Re: [Bloat] Some updates on hacking on AQMS

2011-06-23 Thread Dave Taht
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> It really seems that ECN support could be added generically for all >> qdiscs that currently do packet drop. Creating a generic mark_or_drop >> function is easy. > > As hinted in a previous message -- please don't.  Every qdisc must be

Re: [Bloat] Some updates on hacking on AQMS

2011-06-24 Thread Dave Taht
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le jeudi 23 juin 2011 à 17:10 -0600, Dave Taht a écrit : >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek >> wrote: >> >> It really seems that ECN support could be added generically for all >> >&g

Re: [Bloat] Some updates on hacking on AQMS

2011-06-24 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: >> Once qdisc queue is _full_, its too late, you have to drop packets >> anyway. And its not because at least one flow is not responsive : >> It might be because one

[Bloat] more grokking of iptables, qdiscs, filters, etc

2011-06-26 Thread Dave Taht
As I continue to fiddle with deeply understanding one entirely open source router[1] in the context of bufferbloat by running tons of wildly varied traffic through it... I could be filing individual bug reports in the right places or the right mailing list, or (preferably) writing something other

[Bloat] Smoketesting 'CeroWrt''s Ocean City release

2011-07-09 Thread Dave Taht
After a long gestation, we're happy to announce the existence of a 'smoke test' release of 'CeroWrt', for the NETGEAR WNDR3700v2 series of routers. Documentation, flash images, and installation guide are at: http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/OCEAN_CITY_INSTALLATION_GUIDE This smok

[Bloat] bufferbloat bug 216 could use some eyeballs badly

2011-08-01 Thread Dave Taht
If anyone can spare some eyeballs for the discussion of wireless-n AMPDUs and their interaction with bufferbloat, and groks TCP's behavior and/or wireless's behavior, I'd appreciate some comment on: http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/216 Losing SOME appropriate packets, somewhere in the wireless s

[Bloat] wifi test gear

2011-08-01 Thread Dave Taht
I think I'd like to have one or more of these to test with: http://www2.litepoint.com/products/manufacturing/iqflex Anybody have one or know someone that does? -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com ___ Bloat m

Re: [Bloat] patches, build sources?

2011-08-01 Thread Dave Taht
Dear Hector: We're getting to where all the sources will be publicly available via a simple build script. Regrettably the script and repos have cleanup problems right now that I hope to solve by Friday, and I plan to push out a few of the main patches into openwrt in that timeframe as well. There

Re: [Bloat] bufferbloat bug [#216] could use some eyeballs badly

2011-08-01 Thread Dave Taht
s root qdisc is necessary to model the hardware queues and > the MAC queues in 802.11 correctly - you're not queuing lots of frames in > the driver, rather extending the queuing system to implement parts of the > MAC. > > Simon > > > On 08/01/2011 06:30 AM, John W. Lin

[Bloat] Testing wireless broadcast/multicast within cerowrt

2011-08-03 Thread Dave Taht
Given how devastatingly effective my call to the list for help was, on: http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/216 http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/195 (195 is NAILED right now, 216 is making serious progress - see the bug reports for more details) I figure that perhaps leveraging y'all expertise to

Re: [Bloat] Testing wireless broadcast/multicast within cerowrt

2011-08-03 Thread Dave Taht
All those protocols are too 'ANT'-like - nearly at the level of statistical noise. Need a much bigger hammer than that to play with. That said, there's plenty of problems showing up in the noise... On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Dave Hart wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 a

[Bloat] CeroWrt logo math and art help?

2011-08-08 Thread Dave Taht
So as we march down towards *maybe* having a modestly debloated router ready for the Linux Wireless summit in Vancouver, august 15th, I'd let logos, t-shirts, and hats - classic stuff like that - for the project - slide overlong. Jim did one up for bufferbloat a while back, ( http://www.cafepress.

[Bloat] Cerowrt 1.0rc5 is out

2011-08-12 Thread Dave Taht
This is the first release containing fixes to bugs 216 and 195 - now that those bugs are stomped, we hope to start working up the stack and finally start beating the bloat, for real. This version has tcp_low_latency enabled by default, 5 different tcp algorithms and the usual horde of stuff docume

Re: [Bloat] Announcing CeroWrt RC6 (beta) test.

2011-08-18 Thread Dave Taht
I note that rc6 is not ready yet, but rc5 is REALLY promising, and more people testing that now would make rc6 all the better. -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com ___ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloa

[Bloat] Buffbloat speaker in Bristol Sept 6 needed?

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Taht
The chair of the UK Network Operators' Forum (UKNOF), Keith Mitchell, cc'd, has asked if we can provide a speaker for the upcoming meeting in Bristol, Tue, 6th September. As both jg and I are going to be at the Linux Plumbers conference that week, I'm wondering if anyone from our European continge

[Bloat] mooseshaper?

2011-09-10 Thread Dave Taht
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jim Gettys Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:45 AM Subject: Fwd: caidathoughts on bufferbloat To: Dave Taht Note the moosehaper. Worth reading through in general. on caida chat room so far: kenyon says, "hooray bufferbloat believers. I&#x

[Bloat] Fwd: bridge should flood non-IPv4-multicast ethernet frames

2011-09-13 Thread Dave Taht
I think this possibly explains why I ended up routing ipv6 everywhere rather than bridging it. -- Forwarded message -- From: Chuck Anderson Date: Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:00 PM Subject: bridge should flood non-IPv4-multicast ethernet frames To: net...@vger.kernel.org When the bri

Re: [Bloat] CeroWrt RC6 (beta 2) ready for testing.

2011-09-20 Thread Dave Taht
I have seen the new 3800 model now entering stores. Judging from the clock rate (680 mhz) and feature set, it does *look like* a souped up atheros based platform, and the extra ram would come in handy. It would be my hope that this box would 'just work' but I don't know anyone that has tried one,

[Bloat] Slipping dates for cerowrt (vacation)

2011-09-24 Thread Dave Taht
As the kernel development process has slowed due the ongoing recovery from the kernel.org, bottlenecking changes to cerowrt and debloat-testing... and I can't offer anything but empathy to those at kernel.org getting things back online ... and I just arrived in Paris to work out of the lincs.f

[Bloat] Dealing with P2P traffic in modern networks - measurement, identification, and control

2011-09-28 Thread Dave Taht
I am presently wading through the following thesis by a researcher here at lincs. http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~valenti/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PhDDefense The portions regarding LEDBAT (chapter 8 onwards) are particularly interesting. -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 ht

[Bloat] Bufferbloat talk in Paris Oct 19th

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Taht
I am giving a public talk tomorrow (wednesday, october 19th) at 14:00 entitled 'Analyzing Bufferbloat in wireless networks' In Paris, France, at the lincs lab, 4th floor, room #24 I fully intend to give this talk again, (whereever in Europe I am asked!!) as I'm still shaking the bugs out of it.

Re: [Bloat] First-time install on brand new WNDR3700v2 not working

2011-11-03 Thread Dave Taht
Wow. 3 flashers in one day. (there is no specific cerowrt list, this is as good a place as any, at least for now) I will try to improve the flashing instructions but to clarify here: the 'FACTORY' images are are for installing when you have factory firmware installed. Usually, but *not always*, y

Re: [Bloat] First-time install on brand new WNDR3700v2 not working

2011-11-04 Thread Dave Taht
7;" Dibbler is old, and what's in git is improving but unstable. I really don't know what to use. I have a request from comcast to use something, anything, but... When I connected the router to my main ipv6 enabled router, it was able > to pick the ipv6, but something still wron

Re: [Bloat] First-time install on brand new WNDR3700v2 not working

2011-11-05 Thread Dave Taht
rc7-smoketest10 is out in the usual place. Fix for the wifi detect routine, re: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/10350 Also jow had been busy abstracting out network protocol support from the web interface, I added ipv6 as std, 3g as optional. (package is luci-proto-whatever) TOTALLY untested. s

[Bloat] what I think is wrong with eBDP in debloat-testing

2011-11-07 Thread Dave Taht
I just spent the last 6 months not talking about the debloat-testing kernel. The initial test results sucked for eBDP and A* in it. I didn't trust any layer of the stack at that point in time. Definately not the iwl driver. (I still don't trust the iwl driver!). (I tend to use eBDP and A* as syn

Re: [Bloat] what I think is wrong with eBDP in debloat-testing

2011-11-07 Thread Dave Taht
oops, correction: On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > > > This is just plain wrong. In wireless-g the relationship between these > queues is far more sane than in -n. Aggregation doesn't currently happen in > the VO(?) queue - thus in addition to having a la

Re: [Bloat] what I think is wrong with eBDP in debloat-testing

2011-11-07 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 08:10:57PM +0100, Dave Taht wrote: > > > John was right when he wrote in the initial announcement: > > > > "This version runs separate instances of the algorithm for each WMM > >

[Bloat] bloat, 3G networks and switch behavior

2011-11-08 Thread Dave Taht
just stumbled across this old piece which links to some of the original discussions around what has become called bufferbloat since, and also had some links to papers I hadn't read. http://blogs.broughturner.com/2009/10/is-att-wireless-data-congestion-selfinflicted.html I'm curious as to who is m

Re: [Bloat] small rural wireless ISP

2011-11-08 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Andrew Hammond < andrew.george.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > My friend owns and operates a small ISP that serves a small town and the > surrounding rural area. > > His current setup is wireless routers in bridge mode. > > Heh. I would suspect he has scaling problems.

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