[Bloat] The choke scheduler, and other driver patches

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:41:40 -0700
d at taht.net (Dave Täht) wrote:

> 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?
> 
> >
> 
yes choke support is in git repo (on choke branch)


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