On Feb 12, 2017, at 5:41 PM, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 Feb, 2017, at 16:12, Pete Heist <peteheist@gmail.com> wrote:
2) Using a 1.25 GHz Mac Mini PPC G4 I have laying around. I successfully ran fq_codel for ADSL on that box in the past, but at 5 / 0.5 Mbps. Accurate Flent results running Cake at 80 Mbps? Timer issues?
That should be absolutely fine at 80Mbps. PowerPC Macs seem to have good hi-res timers in my experience, and the Sun GEM is a relatively good NIC. The main limitation is that it’s PCI rather than PCIe, so it can’t reach the full GigE line rate, but it does go well above 100Mbps.
Don’t worry about BQL, since you’re not relying on NIC backpressure to control queuing.
Ok, good news, then that’s the way I’ll go! Thanks for that, more results later...