[Bloat] AQM and PPP on Linux

[Simon Barber]

The issue is that Codel tries to keep the delay low, and will start 
dropping when sojourn time grows above 5ms for 100ms. For longer RTT links 
more delay is necessary to avoid underutilizing the link. This is due to 
the multiplicative decrease - it's worst with Reno, where the halving of 
cWind means that you need to have a full BDP of data in the buffer to avoid 
the link going idle when cWind is halved. With longer RTTs this means more 
delay than Codel allows is required to avoid a throughput hit. The worst 
case happens when a single flow is controlled, but that can be a common 
situation. My proposal is to sense and have the target value in Codel 
automatically adjust when this worst case scenario happens - which would 
mitigate most of the downside.

Simon

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On July 28, 2015 7:21:56 AM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 07:11 -0700, Simon Barber wrote:
> > The main danger is the negative effects on performance of using Codel. You
> > may experience low throughput on high RTT links.
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> Really ? I've never seen this, unless you mess with codel qdisc
> attributes maybe.
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> (Some guys seem to not really understand whole concept of a queue, and
> set very low values for 'limit' attribute for example)
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