[Bloat] RED against bufferbloat

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Feb 25 14:25:15 EST 2015


> 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. 

Is a slot for the head-of-list pointer all the information you need to 
remember for an empty queue?  Or do you need some memory of recent traffic?


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