Do the AP-to-AP links use the same packet scheduling as the AP-to-STA links? (especially the prohibition on aggregation for VO, which seems counter-productive on a backhaul link). On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 5 Jul, 2018, at 9:02 pm, Pete Heist wrote: > > > >> Wouldn't be surprised. Note that packets will be dropped from the > >> longest queue, though, so unresponsive flows just hurt themselves... > > > > Probably not before they’ve wasted airtime though and and impacted > everyone else... > > Would it be worth extending the principle of airtime fairness to the QoS > queues? Clearly traffic in the VO queue consumes airtime out of all > proportion to its actual volume, due to the prohibition on aggregation; > this provokes a similar argument to the impact of slow clients on faster > ones. > > I wouldn't worry too much about the links between leaf APs and their > clients. Those are probably relatively strong and fast, so BE traffic can > get through reasonably well in between the VO traffic. > > But the AP-to-AP links cover a significant distance and are that much more > susceptible to airtime congestion, which VO traffic exacerbates > considerably. These APs are also running open-source firmware where we can > actually tackle this problem. So there must be a case for deprioritising > VO if it's using more than some reasonable share of the available airtime. > > Oh, and if I find out which BT client has selected a VO-category DSCP by > default... >:-( > > - Jonathan Morton > > _______________________________________________ > Make-wifi-fast mailing list > Make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/make-wifi-fast >