The choke scheduler, and other driver patches

Dave Täht d at taht.net
Sun Feb 20 13:41:40 EST 2011


Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at vyatta.com> writes:

> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:02:06 -0700
> d at taht.net (Dave Täht) wrote:
>
>> 
>> I've been accumulating patches into my debloat branch today.[1]
>> 
>> Already in there are:
>> My ath9k patch (mildly revised)
>> An e1000e patch for ethtool on my laptop
>> ar71xx patches reducing dma tx queue size
>> Kirkwood ethernet patches
>> Nathan's original iwl patch
>> linville's eBDP2 proposal
>> 
>> And I wouldn't mind accumulating more.
>> 
>> In particular I'm looking for the most current version of the choke
>> scheduler in the hope to play with both it and SFB.  I've already
>> patched up tc for SFB, [3], it looks like patching tc for choke would
>> also be easy...
>> 
>> If there are any other bufferbloat related patches I should be aware of 
>> please let me know. I seem to remember another scheduler being
>> discussed, among other things, and if anyone has more knobs they can
>> expose to userspace, let me know. 
>
> CHOKe is upstream in davem net-next-2.6 tree.

I knew trying to pull stuff together from wireless-testing and other
trees was going to be painful... Will cherry pick.

Are there patches to tc for choke yet?

>

-- 
Dave Taht
http://nex-6.taht.net



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