[Bloat] Flow queuing performance (was: Re: [tsvwg] New Version Notification for draft-baker-tsvwg-aqm-recommendation-00.txt)

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:12:16 -0400
Jim Gettys <jg at freedesktop.org> wrote:

> As a result, at the last Linux Plumber's Conference in August, there was
> general consensus that we could replace PFIFO_FAST as the default qdisc in
> Linux, awaiting just our confidence that fq_codel (or something very
> similar) was mature enough for such a step.

The only thing holding this back is that some user's still want to have priority queueing
of control packets. I (and others) have done some experiments on layering a traditional
three class priority layer on top of fq_codel, but nothing concrete has been submitted
for review.