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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: Jose Blanquicet <blanquicet@gmail.com>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net, marco maniezzo <marco.maniezzo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] CPU consumption using TC-TBF and TC-POLICE to limit rate
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 15:50:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6E9DF291-4DD8-46D5-A6E0-E7917EDCD4B3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFC8iJL-yJqbfOvJwqnP2AxP8DnyQvF_-DaOngV-fwhcdCdLRA@mail.gmail.com>

> On 26 May, 2020, at 12:47 pm, Jose Blanquicet <blanquicet@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We have an embedded system with limited CPU resources that acts as
> gateway to provide Internet access from LTE to a private Wi-Fi
> network. Our problem is that the bandwidth on LTE and Wi-Fi links is
> higher than what the system is able to handle thus it reaches 100% of
> CPU load when we perform a simple speed test from a device connected
> to our Wi-Fi Hotspot.
> 
> Therefore, we want to limit the bandwidth to avoid system gets
> saturated is such use-case. To do so, we thought to use the QDISC-TBF
> on the Wi-Fi interface. For instance, to have 10Mbps:
> 
>    tc qdisc add dev wlan0 root tbf rate 10mbit burst 12500b latency 50ms
> 
> It worked correctly and maximum rate was limited to 10Mbps. However,
> we noticed that the CPU load added by the TBF was not negligible for
> our system.

Just how limited is the CPU on this device?  I have successfully shaped at several tens of Mbps on a Pentium-MMX, where the limiting factor may have been the PCI bus rather than the CPU itself.

Assuming your CPU is of that order of capability, I would suggest installing Cake using the out-of-tree build process, and the latest stable version of the iproute2 tools to configure it.  Start with:

	git clone https://github.com/dtaht/sch_cake.git

This provides a more efficient and more effective shaper than TBF, and a more effective AQM than a policer, and good flow-isolation properties, all in a single bundle that will be more efficient than running two separate components.

Once installed, the following should set it up nicely for you:

	tc qdisc replace dev wlan0 root cake bandwidth 10Mbit besteffort flows ack-filter

Cake is considered quite a heavyweight solution, but very effective.  If it doesn't work well for this particular use case, it may be feasible to backport some more recent work which takes a simpler approach, though along similar lines.

 - Jonathan Morton


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-26 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-26  9:47 Jose Blanquicet
2020-05-26 12:04 ` Y
2020-05-26 12:50 ` Jonathan Morton [this message]
2020-05-26 14:42   ` Jose Blanquicet
     [not found] ` <mailman.433.1590494678.24343.bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
2020-05-26 14:50   ` Jose Blanquicet
2020-05-26 15:01     ` Y

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