Maybe you can do a quick blog howto? I'd bet the same could be done for raspberry pi and perhaps my other toy the wandboard which has a gigE adapter and Scsi making it a nice iscsi target or nfs server. De bloating the world... One step at a time. On Jun 11, 2014, Dave Taht wrote: >The bloat problem and solutions are not just limited to fixing >routers, but hosts. > >Nearly every low end board I've seen out there forgos a gigE ethernet >interface in favor of a lower power and cost 100mbit interface. > >No distro I've seen modifies the default pfifo txqueuelen from the >current 1000 packet default down to a more reasonable 100 packet >default in that case. And, while many ethernet devices in this >category are hooked up via usb (and currently hard to add BQL support >to), some are not, and byte queue limit support can be easily added to >those. > >Sadly byte queue limits (BQL) is only implemented on a bunch of top >end ethernet drivers. (about 10, last I looked) > >I needed a break from big problems, so a couple late nights later, I >have a very small patch adding support for BQL to the beaglebone >black: > >http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/0001-Add-BQL-support-to-cpsw-beaglebone-driver.patch > >And the results were quite pleasing at 100mbit. BQL holds things down >to two full size packets in the tx ring and we see an enormous >improvement in bidirectional throughput, jitter, and latency. > >http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/beagle_bql/bql_makes_a_difference.png >http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/beagle_bql/beaglebonewins.png > >The default linux behavior ( pfifo fast, txqueue 1000 ) prior to this >patch looked pretty awful: > >http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/beagle_nobql/pfifo_nobql_tsq3028txqueue1000.svg > >and went to looking like this: > >http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/beagle_bql/pfifo_bql_tsq3028txqueue1000.svg > >And adding the new fq scheduler looked like this: > >http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/beagle_bql/fq_bql_tsq3028.svg > >(fq_codel was similar) > >The fact that we don't achieve full upload throughput on this last >test is probably >due to having a tail dropping switch in the way, and/or some dma >dequeuing >cleanup conflicts between the low level transmit and receive queues on >this device (they share an interrupt AND use napi which seems >puzzling). > >But any day I can get a 4-10x improvement in latency and throughput is >a good day. One IoT device down, thousands to go. It would be nice if >the chipmakers were incorporating bql into boxes destined for the >internet of things. > >-- >Dave Täht >_______________________________________________ >Cerowrt-devel mailing list >Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net >https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel -- Sent from my Android device with K-@ Mail. Please excuse my brevity.