Re: [Bloat] [Cake] paper: per flow fairness in a data center network

[Dave Taht <dave@taht.net>]

Luca Muscariello <luca.muscariello@gmail.com> writes:

> I disagree on the claims that DC switches do not implement anything.
> They do, from quite some time now.
>
> https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-9000-series-switches/white-paper-c11-738488.html

I'm really impressed. I'd have probably heard about it if they'd
mentioned bufferbloat once :/.

The graphs comparing their performance to arista's are far, far, far too
small to read. You can certainly see a huge improvement on mice in this
paper.

is there a better copy of this paper around?

What's the cheapest form of this switch I can buy? (or beg, borrow, or
steal?) I do need a 10GigE-40GigE capable switch in the lab, and BOY oh
boy oh boy would I love to test this one.

Has this tech made it into their routing products?

>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:19 AM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     While I strongly agree with their premise:
>     
>     "Multi-tenant DCNs cannot rely on specialized protocols and
>     mechanisms
>     that assume single ownership and end-system compliance. It is
>     necessary rather to implement general, well-understood mechanisms
>     provided as a network service that require as few assumptions
>     about DC
>     workload as possible."
>     
>     ... And there's a solid set of links to current work, and a very
>     interesting comparison to pfabric, their DCTCP emulation is too
>     flawed
>     to be convincing, and we really should get around to making the
>     ns2
>     fq_codel emulation fully match reality. This is also a scenario
>     where
>     I'd like to see cake tried, to demonstrate the effectiveness (or
>     not!)
>     of 8 way set associative queuing, cobalt, per host/per flow fq,
>     etc,
>     vs some of the workloads they outline.
>     
>     https://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/drossi/paper/rossi18hpsr.pdf
>     
>     -- 
>     
>     Dave Täht
>     CTO, TekLibre, LLC
>     http://www.teklibre.com
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