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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: davecb@spamcop.net
Cc: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>, bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Other CAKE territory (was: CAKE in openwrt high CPU)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 04:19:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8AA690BF-B027-420B-81B1-8E9F445D5BB7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c4212c4-3acb-6616-d9a2-6bef7e65bbad@rogers.com>

> On 4 Sep, 2020, at 1:14 am, David Collier-Brown <davecb.42@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering if edge servers with 1Gb NICs are inside the "CAKE stays relevant" territory?  

Edge servers usually have strong enough CPUs and I/O - by which I mean anything from AMD K8 and Intel Core 2 onwards with PCIe attached NICs - to run Cake at 1Gbps without needing special measures.  I should run a test to see how much I can shove through an AMD Bobcat these days - not exactly a speed demon.

We're usually seeing problems with the smaller-scale CPUs found in CPE SoCs, which are very much geared to take advantage of hardware accelerated packet forwarding.  I think in some cases there might actually be insufficient internal I/O bandwidth to get 1Gbps out of the NIC, into the CPU, and back out to the NIC again, only through the dedicated forwarding path.  That could manifest itself as a lot of kernel time spent waiting for the hardware, and can only really be solved by redesigning the hardware.

 - Jonathan Morton


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-04  1:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-30 17:27 [Bloat] CAKE in openwrt high CPU Mikael Abrahamsson
2020-08-30 17:52 ` Dave Taht
2020-08-31 11:35 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-08-31 12:22   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2020-08-31 13:29     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-03 13:10       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2020-09-03 13:29         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-03 13:34           ` Sebastian Moeller
2020-09-03 13:32         ` Sebastian Moeller
2020-09-04 13:37           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2020-09-04 14:12             ` Sebastian Moeller
2020-09-01 15:41   ` Jonathan Foulkes
2020-09-01 16:11     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-01 16:25       ` Sebastian Moeller
2020-09-01 18:45         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-01 19:05           ` Jonathan Morton
2020-09-01 21:09             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-01 19:01       ` Jonathan Foulkes
2020-09-01 21:11         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-02 20:26           ` Jonathan Foulkes
2020-09-02 20:57             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-03 13:19           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2020-09-03 13:27             ` Luca Muscariello
2020-09-03 14:32               ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-03 15:31                 ` Luca Muscariello
2020-09-03 18:39                   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-03 18:53                 ` Jonathan Morton
2020-09-03 22:14                 ` [Bloat] Other CAKE territory (was: CAKE in openwrt high CPU) David Collier-Brown
2020-09-04  1:19                   ` Jonathan Morton [this message]
2020-09-04 13:41                     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2020-09-04 11:11                   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-03 13:27             ` [Bloat] CAKE in openwrt high CPU Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-01 16:18     ` Sebastian Moeller
2020-09-01 19:31       ` Jonathan Foulkes
2020-09-01 20:04         ` Sebastian Moeller
2020-09-01 20:09           ` Jonathan Morton

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