[Bloat] I have a new record for bloat

Dave Täht dave at taht.net
Sat Apr 1 00:05:40 EDT 2017



On 3/31/17 3:07 PM, Alex Burr wrote:
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> On Saturday, February 11, 2017 9:05 AM, Neil Davies <neil.davies at pnsol.com> wrote:
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>> The same mindset that created these sort of performance artefacts is also driving changes in DSL 
>> standards, so watch out for these sort of artefacts (again induced by things that you have no direct
>> control over) starting to occur in “high speed” DSL systems (such as VDSL) when conditions are less
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> Are you referring to G.998.4? That's supposed to introduce a max of 63ms delay. But it's been a while since I was involved in DSL, so maybe it's something new...


It's not the encoding, it's the queuing. Unless they also adopt
something like "bql" in their ring buffers in their firmware, and
something like fq_codel slightly above that, under distant conditions or
when rate limited by the provider, they new stuff will bloat up.


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