On 2020-09-03 10:32 a.m., Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via Bloat wrote

Yeah, offloading of some sort is another option, but I consider that
outside of the "CAKE stays relevant" territory, since that will most
likely involve an entirely programmable packet scheduler. There was some
discussion of adding such a qdisc to Linux at LPC[0]. The Eiffel[1]
algorithm seems promising.

-Toke

I'm wondering if edge servers with 1Gb NICs are inside the "CAKE stays relevant" territory? 

My main customer/employer has a gazillion of those, currently reporting

qdisc mq 0: root

because their OS is just a tiny bit elderly (;-)). We we're planning to roll forward this quarter to centos 8.2, where CAKE is an option.

It strikes me that the self-tuning capacity of CAKE might be valuable for a whole class of small rack-mounted machines, but you just mentioned the desire for better multi-processor support.

Am I reaching for the moon, or is this something within reach?

--dave

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