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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Sebastian Moeller <moeller0@gmx.de>
Cc: cake@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Cake] [NetDev-People] 0x19: Talk, mq-cake: Scaling software rate limiting across CPU cores
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:35:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xlirssb.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564C0719-2569-4A8A-981D-35F9473F8AF2@gmx.de>

Sebastian Moeller <moeller0@gmx.de> writes:

> That sounds most excellent...
>
> This also means that now we need cheap router hardware with > 2 NIC
> queues and > 2 CPUs ;) (with ingress and egress shaping the current
> state is that 2 CPUs can be utilised).

Well, even if there are only 2 CPUs, the MQ version can utilise both of
those in one direction, which helps for asymmetrical traffic :)

> I wonder, does this work for IFBs as well or only for real hardware
> NIC queues?

Yup, you can specify the number of TX queues on an ifb interface when
creating it (ip link add numtxqueues 2 type ifb).

-Toke


  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-10 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2025-02-10  9:30 ` [Cake] Fwd: " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2025-02-10 10:11   ` [Cake] " Sebastian Moeller
2025-02-10 10:35     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2025-02-10 12:06       ` Sebastian Moeller
2025-02-10 12:30         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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