From: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@gmail.com>
To: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] benefits of ack filtering
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 12:40:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2933f6d-85ef-3223-22ce-0ae3adba9c37@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shcs9k0v.wl-jch@irif.fr>
On 03/12/17 11:35, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> I'm lost here. What exact problem is the ACK hack supposed to work
> around? Ridiculous amount of asymmetry in the last-hop WiFi link, or
> outrageous amounts of asymmetry in a transit link beyond the last hop?
My understanding is that the issue that gave rise to this discussion was
concerned with upstream bandwidth conservation in the uplink of a DOCSIS
network by the cable modem dropping a large percentage of upstream TCP ACKs.
One element of that discussion was the question as to whether it was OK
for middleboxes (such as in this case cable modems) to reduce the number
of TCP ACKs, or whether instead the TCP stacks in the endpoints should
be made to send fewer such ACKs in the first place.
I then added more confusion by saying that in the case of wifi-connected
endpoints the upstream TCP ACKs also compete for airtime with the
downstream flow. Of course this no longer has anything to do with the
cable modem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-03 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-28 21:48 [Bloat] " Dave Taht
2017-11-29 6:09 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-11-29 9:34 ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-11-29 12:49 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-11-29 13:13 ` Luca Muscariello
2017-11-29 14:31 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-11-29 14:36 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-29 15:24 ` Andrés Arcia-Moret
2017-11-29 15:53 ` Luca Muscariello
[not found] ` <CAJq5cE3qsmy8EFYZmQsLL_frm8Tty9Gkm92MQPZ649+kpM1oMw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-29 16:13 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-30 7:03 ` Michael Welzl
2017-11-30 7:24 ` Dave Taht
2017-11-30 7:45 ` Dave Taht
2017-11-30 7:48 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-30 8:00 ` Luca Muscariello
2017-11-30 10:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-11-30 13:04 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-11-30 15:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-01 0:28 ` David Lang
2017-12-01 7:09 ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-12-01 12:53 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-12-01 13:13 ` [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] " Кирилл Луконин
2017-12-01 13:22 ` Luca Muscariello
2017-12-11 17:42 ` Simon Barber
2017-12-01 13:17 ` [Bloat] " Luca Muscariello
2017-12-01 13:40 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-12-01 17:42 ` Dave Taht
2017-12-01 20:39 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03 5:20 ` [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] " Bob McMahon
2017-12-03 10:35 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03 11:40 ` Jan Ceuleers [this message]
2017-12-03 13:57 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03 14:07 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-12-03 19:53 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03 14:09 ` Ryan Mounce
2017-12-03 19:54 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03 20:14 ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-12-03 22:27 ` Dave Taht
2017-12-03 15:25 ` Robert Bradley
2017-12-04 3:44 ` Dave Taht
2017-12-04 14:38 ` David Collier-Brown
2017-12-04 15:44 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-04 17:17 ` David Collier-Brown
2017-12-03 19:04 ` Bob McMahon
2017-12-01 21:17 ` Bob McMahon
2017-12-01 8:45 ` [Bloat] " Sebastian Moeller
2017-12-01 10:45 ` Luca Muscariello
2017-12-01 18:43 ` Dave Taht
2017-12-01 18:57 ` Luca Muscariello
2017-12-01 19:36 ` Dave Taht
2017-11-30 14:51 ` Neal Cardwell
2017-11-30 15:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-11-30 15:57 ` Neal Cardwell
2017-11-29 16:50 ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-12-12 19:27 ` Benjamin Cronce
2017-12-12 20:04 ` Dave Taht
2017-12-12 21:03 ` David Lang
2017-12-12 21:29 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-12 22:03 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-12 22:21 ` David Lang
[not found] ` <CAJq5cE3nfSQP0GCLjp=X0T-iHHgAs=YUCcr34e3ARgkrGZe-wg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-12-12 22:41 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-13 9:46 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-12-13 10:03 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-13 12:11 ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-12-13 12:18 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-13 12:36 ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-12-13 12:39 ` Luca Muscariello
2017-11-29 18:21 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-11-29 18:41 ` Dave Taht
2017-11-29 23:29 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2017-11-29 23:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 0:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-11 20:15 ` Benjamin Cronce
2017-11-29 18:28 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-11-29 18:48 ` Dave Taht
2017-12-11 18:30 ` Jonathan Morton
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