[Bloat] AFD

[Dave Taht]

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:

> Luca Muscariello <luca.muscariello at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This procedure would allow to size FQ_codel but also SFQ.
>> It would be interesting to compare the two under this buffer sizing.
>> It would also be interesting to compare another mechanism that we have
>> mentioned during the defense
>> which is AFD + a sparse flow queue. Which is, BTW, already available in
>> Cisco nexus switches for data centres.
>
> One think I wondered about afterwards was whether or not it would be
> feasible (as in, easy to add, or maybe even supported in current
> versions) to tie in an AQM to an AFD-type virtual fairness queueing
> system? You could keep the AQM state variables along with the per-flow
> state and react appropriately. Any reason why this wouldn't work?

Just bookmarking this thought for now.