[Bloat] RED against bufferbloat

Jonathan Morton chromatix99 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 12:56:42 EST 2015


> A single FQ instantiation has to consume no more memory than a single
FIFO instantiation.

That's easy enough. You can fit an awful lot of linked list pointers into
the space of a single IP packet. Even if you're only assigning 64KB per
subscriber, you can store 43 full packets and still have pointers to spare.
A properly functioning AQM should mostly keep the queue smaller than that.

- Jonathan Morton
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