Re: [Make-wifi-fast] [Bloat] Van Jacobson's slides on timing wheels at netdevconf

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, Jonathan Morton wrote:

> An example of such a situation would be sparse flows in DRR++, which is 
> a key part of fq_codel and Cake.  So to implement DRR++ using timing 
> wheels, you have to choose your scheduling horizon carefully so as to 
> minimise the delay to sparse packets.

At the spring IETF, there was talk from IEEE person about using ethernet 
pause frames to get senders to stop talking for a while. My understanding 
was that this was on microsecond scale or even nanosecond time scales.

One of the mentions in the presentation was on slide 10 about 
"fat-buffered router". In the data center, these are kind of going away, 
because on-die memory is small and rates are high. A 64x100GE forwarding 
asic might have 16MB of buffer, which is very little buffer for the kind 
of bit rates we're talking here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJMvAqEQCBE 1h44m in (proposed IEEE 
802.1Qcz work) is the one I am thinking of.

Wonder how this would interact with the timing wheel proposed by Van 
Jacobson?

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se