Re: [Bloat] Notes about hacking on AQMs

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>]

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 19:06 -0400, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:27:51AM -0400, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 16:57 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 
> > > Just add to your HTB some RED qdisc ? You have a framework to build
> > > whatever is needed. Dont try to use a "single magic thing that will
> > > solve all my problems". This reminds me the ESFQ attempt : Patrick
> > > prefered to plug an external classifier in SFQ, instead of adding
> > > specialized code in each possible Qdisc.
> > 
> > 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 that you will never figure out your small syntax
> > errors.
> > 
> > I wonder if Thomas Graf ever finished/release his alternative to tc?
> 
> Wish I could spend more time on it but I'm slowly getting there.
> I'll present some of it at netconf.
> 
> Takes quite some effort to really handle all misconfiguration
> cases and print verbose error messages to help and assist the
> user.

Good to hear that you still work on the project :-)

Thomas Graf's old slides are available here:
  http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2010_slides/tgraf_netconf10.odp