[Bloat] [aqm] TSO sizing fixes and the new paced "fq" scheduler in Linux 3.12

Alex Elsayed eternaleye at gmail.com
Sun Sep 29 04:02:50 EDT 2013


Dave Taht wrote:

> On Sep 25, 2013 9:58 AM, "Eric Dumazet"
> <eric.dumazet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 17:38 +0200, Luca MUSCARIELLO wrote:
>>
>> > Then, I feel like FQ is a bad name to call this "newFQ".
>> > It's an implementation of a fair TCP pacer. Which is very useful, but
>> > FQ is kind of misleading, IMHO.
>>
>> No problem, feel free to send a patch. I am very bad at choosing names.
> 
> Fair TCP pacer = ftp # taken
> Paced fair queue = pfq # lit collision
> Enhanced paced queue = epq # pronounced epic!

There's also the option of 'Fair Queue Pacing', but I don't think we'd like 
how 'fqp' would be pronounced :P




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