[Bloat] beating the drum for BQL

[Pete Heist]

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Pete Heist <pete at heistp.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 23, 2018, at 2:49 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com <mailto:dave.taht at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I had a chance to give a talk at broadcom recently, slides here:
>> 
>> http://flent-fremont.bufferbloat.net/~d/broadcom_aug9.pdf <http://flent-fremont.bufferbloat.net/~d/broadcom_aug9.pdf>
> 
> Thanks for sharing, this is really useful, raising awareness where it matters. Quite a bit of content... :)
> 
> Ubiquiti needs some work getting this into more of their products (EdgeMAX in particular). A good time to lobby for this might be, well a couple months ago, as they’re producing alpha builds for their upcoming 2.0 release with kernel 4.9 and new Cavium/Mediatek/Octeon SDKs. I just asked about the status in the EdgeRouter Beta forum, in case it finds the right eyes before the release:
> 
> https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter-Beta/BQL-support/m-p/2466657 <https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter-Beta/BQL-support/m-p/2466657>

This started a discussion, and no, so far it looks like there’s no BQL support in the upcoming 2.0 release.

For my own benefit, re-reading the original patch series comment (https://lwn.net/Articles/469652/ <https://lwn.net/Articles/469652/>) makes it sound like BQL is useful even without AQM (original benchmarks were done with straight pfifo_fast). I didn’t realize this, actually. If anything incorrect about BQL was said in this discussion, correct us, please… :)

Pete

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