Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com> writes:

>> On 11 Apr, 2018, at 6:24 pm, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> wrote:
>>
>> So, um, did we cram so many features into Cake that it no longer uses
>> less CPU? Can anyone confirm these results?
>
> To be sure about this, it seems wise to configure Cake to turn off as
> many of the new features as possible. That means selecting "besteffort
> flows nonat" mode at least.
>
> I forget whether simplest.qos correctly uses the built-in shaper with
> Cake, rather than just layering it with HTB as usual. If not, then of
> course Cake will use more CPU, and we should be grateful that it's by
> a relatively small margin (maybe 15%).

It is definitely using Cake as the shaper; in besteffort mode, but with
nat and triple-isolation enabled I think. I'll run another test tomorrow
with those disabled.