[Bloat] Pie not fully implementable on tofino p4

[Bloat] Pie not fully implementable on tofino p4

[Dave Taht]

https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2021/2021-kunze-aqm-tofino-p4.pdf

For a codel comparison, see:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.04528v1.pdf

Where the authors show that fq_codel is feasible on the PISA platform...

but a direct comparison between the two papers is not possible. What I
don't understand about the above paper is how codel timestamps are
passed from ingress to egress.

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Re: [Bloat] Pie not fully implementable on tofino p4

[Ralf Kundel]

Hi,

regarding the question: how timestamps come from ingress to egress pipe?

Well this depends (on the P4 abstraction) on the P4 version you use. As
far as I remember (it is a long time ago) in P4_14 metadata (which can
store the timestamp) are handed over implicitly from ingress to egress.
In P4_16 you have do do this explicitly in the Deparser of Ingress and
Parser of Egress: Simply said you just write the timestamp before the
Ethernet header. You can see this here in line 64 to 80:
https://github.com/ralfkundel/p4-codel/blob/master/targets/tofino/srcP4/l1switchCodel.p4


best,
Ralf

Am 21.04.21 um 04:42 schrieb Dave Taht:
> https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2021/2021-kunze-aqm-tofino-p4.pdf
>
> For a codel comparison, see:
>
> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.04528v1.pdf
>
> Where the authors show that fq_codel is feasible on the PISA platform...
>
> but a direct comparison between the two papers is not possible. What I
> don't understand about the above paper is how codel timestamps are
> passed from ingress to egress.
>
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