[Bloat] when does the CoDel part of fq_codel help in the real world?

Michael Welzl michawe at ifi.uio.no
Tue Nov 27 06:07:35 EST 2018


Well, I'm concerned about the delay experienced by people when they surf the web... flow completion time, which relates not only to the delay of packets as they are sent from A to B, but also the utilization.

Cheers,
Michael


> On 27 Nov 2018, at 11:50, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, Luca Muscariello wrote:
> 
>> link fully utilized is defined as Q>0 unless you don't include the packet currently being transmitted. I do, so the TXtteer is never idle. But that's a detail.
> 
> As someone who works with moving packets, it's perplexing to me to interact with transport peeps who seem enormously focused on "goodput". My personal opinion is that most people would be better off with 80% of their available bandwidth being in use without any noticable buffer induced delay, as opposed to the transport protocol doing its damndest to fill up the link to 100% and sometimes failing and inducing delay instead.
> 
> Could someone perhaps comment on the thinking in the transport protocol design "crowd" when it comes to this?
> 
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> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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