On Aug 23, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Pete Heist <pete@heistp.net> wrote:

On Aug 23, 2018, at 2:49 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

I had a chance to give a talk at broadcom recently, slides here:

http://flent-fremont.bufferbloat.net/~d/broadcom_aug9.pdf

Thanks for sharing, this is really useful, raising awareness where it matters. Quite a bit of content... :)

Ubiquiti needs some work getting this into more of their products (EdgeMAX in particular). A good time to lobby for this might be, well a couple months ago, as they’re producing alpha builds for their upcoming 2.0 release with kernel 4.9 and new Cavium/Mediatek/Octeon SDKs. I just asked about the status in the EdgeRouter Beta forum, in case it finds the right eyes before the release:


This started a discussion, and no, so far it looks like there’s no BQL support in the upcoming 2.0 release.

For my own benefit, re-reading the original patch series comment (https://lwn.net/Articles/469652/) makes it sound like BQL is useful even without AQM (original benchmarks were done with straight pfifo_fast). I didn’t realize this, actually. If anything incorrect about BQL was said in this discussion, correct us, please… :)

Pete