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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com>
Cc: bloat-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net, johannes@sipsolutions.net,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: implement eBDP algorithm to fight bufferbloat
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:47:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110221184716.GD9650@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikJeN=CG20PAj-n1ZoaiJLbsiG=jfZnbu4Or3KS@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 07:44:30PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:21 PM, John W. Linville
> <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > +       /* grab timestamp info for buffer control estimates */
> > +       tserv = ktime_sub(ktime_get(), skb->tstamp);
> [...]
> > +               ewma_add(&sta->sdata->qdata[q].tserv_ns_avg,
> > +                        ktime_to_ns(tserv));
> 
> I think you're still measuring how long it takes one packet to get
> from the end of the queue to the beginning, rather than measuring how
> long it takes each packet to go out?

Yes, I am measuring how long the driver+device takes to release each
skb back to me (using that as a proxy for how long it takes to get
the fragment to the next hop).  Actually, FWIW I'm only measuring
that time for those skb's that result in a tx status report.

I tried to see how your measurement would be useful, but I just don't
see how the number of frames ahead of me in the queue is relevant to
the measured link latency?  I mean, I realize that having more packets
ahead of me in the queue is likely to increase the latency for this
frame, but I don't understand why I should use that information to
discount the measured latency...?

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-21 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1297619803-2832-1-git-send-email-njs@pobox.com>
2011-02-17  1:49 ` [RFC] " John W. Linville
2011-02-17  3:31   ` Ben Greear
2011-02-17  4:26   ` Nathaniel Smith
2011-02-17  8:31   ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-18 21:21   ` [RFC v2] " John W. Linville
2011-02-19  3:44     ` Nathaniel Smith
2011-02-21 18:47       ` John W. Linville [this message]
2011-02-21 23:26         ` Nathaniel Smith
2011-02-23 22:28           ` John W. Linville
2011-02-25 18:21             ` Nathaniel Smith
2011-02-25 18:27               ` Nathaniel Smith
2011-02-20  0:37     ` Nathaniel Smith
2011-02-20  0:51       ` Jim Gettys
2011-02-20 15:24         ` Dave Täht
2011-02-21 18:52       ` John W. Linville
2011-02-21 15:28     ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-21 16:12       ` Jim Gettys
2011-02-21 19:15         ` John W. Linville
2011-02-21 19:06       ` John W. Linville
2011-02-21 19:29         ` [RFC v2] mac80211: implement eBDP algorithm to fight bufferbloat - AQM on hosts Jim Gettys
2011-02-21 20:26         ` [RFC v2] mac80211: implement eBDP algorithm to fight bufferbloat Tianji Li
2011-02-28 13:07         ` Johannes Berg
     [not found] <x1-oTZGm1A7eclvABnv1aK0z1Nc7iI@gwene.org>
2011-02-20  1:59 ` Dave Täht

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