Re: [Cake] net-next is OPEN...

["Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>]

Pete Heist <pete@eventide.io> writes:

>> On Apr 16, 2018, at 5:12 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> do we consider cake ready this time?
>> 
>> I'm not aware of anything outstanding, at least...
>
> Do I have the release cycle right that it would have to be upstreamed
> by “about 10 weeks” from now and would end up in 4.18
> (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt)?

Assuming it is accepted, yes... :)

> I remember that fairness behavior at low RTTs (< 20ms) needed to be
> either improved or documented, and don’t see anything about that in
> the man page in the tc-adv repo thus far. Summarizing the host
> isolation results at
> http://www.drhleny.cz/bufferbloat/cake/round2/#hostiso_cake_{rtt}_{qos-id}
> <http://www.drhleny.cz/bufferbloat/cake/round2/#hostiso_cake_%7Brtt%7D_%7Bqos-id%7D>:
>
> RTT: fairness (1.0 == perfect fairness)
> ---
> 100us: 2.22
> 1ms: 1.7
> 2ms: 1.6
> 3ms: 1.42
> 5ms: 1.31
> 8ms: 1.16
> 10ms: 1.12
> 20ms: 1.02
> 40ms: 1.017

Erm, what's the metric and which data source are you looking at here?

-Toke