[Bloat] emulating non-duplex media in linux qdiscs

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been hacking away at netem for a while now in the hope that
> eventually - with a great deal more hacking - it could be used to more
> accurately emulate shared media like wifi and lte.
>
> (Some people try to describe these as simplex (which is not true
> because you can have multiple destinations), and they certainly are
> not duplex, so I tend to say non-duplex and still hope some better
> word emerges)
>
> So... one sticking point for me has been wanting to emulate the fact
> that on shared media, that you cannot transmit and receive at the same
> time; that these are "coupled" events, and what I'd like to be able to
> express might be something like:
>
> tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem rate 100mbit coupled some_identifier
> ... some tc mirred magic for ifb here ...
> tc qdisc add dev ifb0 root netem rate 10mbit coupled the_same_identifier
>
> "some_identifier" would be a mutex of some sort, and I confess to
> not having much grip on the kernel outside of the net/sched directory.
>
> What facility would be best to try and leverage? It would be created
> (globally) on first use, ref-counted (thus destroyed when it goes to
> zero), atomically updated... posix shared memory seems too heavyweight
> to use....
>
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Since qdisc only see output packets, maybe a overlay device (like a tunnel
or vlan),
would be closer to what you want.
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