I did record the qdisc settings, but I didn't capture the stats, but throttling is definitively active when I watch the tc -s stats in realtime when testing (looking at tun1) ​tc -s qdisc show qdisc noqueue 0: dev lo root refcnt 2 Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 qdisc fq 8007: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 limit 10000p flow_limit 100p buckets 1024 orphan_mask 1023 quantum 3028 initial_quantum 15140 refill_delay 40.0ms Sent 1420855729 bytes 969198 pkt (dropped 134, overlimits 0 requeues 0) backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 124 flows (123 inactive, 0 throttled) 0 gc, 0 highprio, 3 throttled, 3925 ns latency, 134 flows_plimit qdisc fq 8008: dev tun1 root refcnt 2 limit 10000p flow_limit 100p buckets 1024 orphan_mask 1023 quantum 3000 initial_quantum 15000 refill_delay 40.0ms Sent 1031289740 bytes 741181 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) backlog 101616b 3p requeues 0 16 flows (15 inactive, 1 throttled), next packet delay 351937 ns 0 gc, 0 highprio, 58377 throttled, 12761 ns latency ​ On 26 January 2017 at 00:33, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 00:04 +0100, Hans-Kristian Bakke wrote: > > I can do that. I guess I should do the capture from tun1 as that is > > the place that the tcp-traffic is visible? My non-virtual nic is only > > seeing OpenVPN encapsulated UDP-traffic. > > > > But is FQ installed at the point TCP sockets are ? > > You should give us "tc -s qdisc show xxx" so that we can check if > pacing (throttling) actually happens. > > > > On 25 January 2017 at 23:48, Neal Cardwell > > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Hans-Kristian Bakke > > wrote: > > Actually.. the 1-4 mbit/s results with fq sporadically > > appears again as I keep testing but it is most likely > > caused by all the unknowns between me an my > > testserver. But still, changing to pfifo_qdisc seems > > to normalize the throughput again with BBR, could this > > be one of those times where BBR and pacing actually is > > getting hurt for playing nice in some very variable > > bottleneck on the way? > > > > > > Possibly. Would you be able to take a tcpdump trace of each > > trial (headers only would be ideal), and post on a web site > > somewhere a pcap trace for one of the slow trials? > > > > > > For example: > > > > > > tcpdump -n -w /tmp/out.pcap -s 120 -i eth0 -c 1000000 & > > > > > > > > thanks, > > neal > > > > > > > > > > On 25 January 2017 at 23:01, Neal Cardwell > > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Hans-Kristian > > Bakke wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > Kernel 4.9 finally landed in Debian > > testing so I could finally test BBR in > > a real life environment that I have > > struggled with getting any kind of > > performance out of. > > > > > > The challenge at hand is UDP based > > OpenVPN through europe at around 35 ms > > rtt to my VPN-provider with plenty of > > available bandwith available in both > > ends and everything completely unknown > > in between. After tuning the > > UDP-buffers up to make room for my 500 > > mbit/s symmetrical bandwith at 35 ms > > the download part seemed to work > > nicely at an unreliable 150 to 300 > > mbit/s, while the upload was stuck at > > 30 to 60 mbit/s. > > > > > > Just by activating BBR the bandwith > > instantly shot up to around 150 mbit/s > > using a fat tcp test to a public > > iperf3 server located near my VPN exit > > point in the Netherlands. Replace BBR > > with qubic again and the performance > > is once again all over the place > > ranging from very bad to bad, but > > never better than 1/3 of BBRs "steady > > state". In other words "instant WIN!" > > > > > > Glad to hear it. Thanks for the test report! > > > > However, seeing the requirement of fq > > and pacing for BBR and noticing that I > > am running pfifo_fast within a VM with > > virtio NIC on a Proxmox VE host with > > fq_codel on all physical interfaces, I > > was surprised to see that it worked so > > well. > > I then replaced pfifo_fast with fq and > > the performance went right down to > > only 1-4 mbit/s from around 150 > > mbit/s. Removing the fq again regained > > the performance at once. > > > > > > I have got some questions to you guys > > that know a lot more than me about > > these things: > > 1. Do fq (and fq_codel) even work > > reliably in a VM? What is the best > > choice for default qdisc to use in a > > VM in general? > > > > > > Eric covered this one. We are not aware of > > specific issues with fq in VM environments. > > And we have tested that fq works sufficiently > > well on Google Cloud VMs. > > > > 2. Why do BBR immediately "fix" all my > > issues with upload through that > > "unreliable" big BDP link with > > pfifo_fast when fq pacing is a > > requirement? > > > > > > For BBR, pacing is part of the design in order > > to make BBR more "gentle" in terms of the rate > > at which it sends, in order to put less > > pressure on buffers and keep packet loss > > lower. This is particularly important when a > > BBR flow is restarting from idle. In this case > > BBR starts with a full cwnd, and it counts on > > pacing to pace out the packets at the > > estimated bandwidth, so that the queue can > > stay relatively short and yet the pipe can be > > filled immediately. > > > > > > Running BBR without pacing makes BBR more > > aggressive, particularly in restarting from > > idle, but also in the steady state, where BBR > > tries to use pacing to keep the queue short. > > > > > > For bulk transfer tests with one flow, running > > BBR without pacing will likely cause higher > > queues and loss rates at the bottleneck, which > > may negatively impact other traffic sharing > > that bottleneck. > > > > 3. Could fq_codel on the physical host > > be the reason that it still works? > > > > > > Nope, fq_codel does not implement pacing. > > > > 4. Do BBR _only_ work with fq pacing > > or could fq_codel be used as a > > replacement? > > > > > > Nope, BBR needs pacing to work correctly, and > > currently fq is the only Linux qdisc that > > implements pacing. > > > > 5. Is BBR perhaps modified to do the > > right thing without having to change > > the qdisc in the current kernel 4.9? > > > > > > Nope. Linux 4.9 contains the initial public > > release of BBR from September 2016. And there > > have been no code changes since then (just > > expanded comments). > > > > > > Thanks for the test report! > > > > > > neal > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bloat mailing list > > Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net > > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat > > >