Re: [Cake] A few puzzling Cake results

[Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>]

> On 18 Apr, 2018, at 6:17 pm, Sebastian Moeller <moeller0@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Just a thought, in egress mode in the typical deployment we expect, the bandwidth leading into cake will be >> than the bandwidth out of cake, so I would argue that the package droppage might be acceptable on egress as there is bandwidth to "waste" while on ingress the issue very much is that all packets cake sees already used up parts of the limited transfer time on the bottleneck link and hence are more "precious", no? Users wanting this new behavior could still use the ingress keyword even on egress interfaces?

Broadly speaking, that should indeed counter most of the negative effects you'd expect from disabling this tweak in egress mode.  But it doesn't really answer the question of whether there's a compelling *positive* reason to do so.  I want to see a use case that holds up.

 - Jonathan Morton