[Bloat] first bufferbloat free cablemodem?

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Sun Oct 7 23:36:38 EDT 2018


On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Aaron Wood wrote:

> Maybe he's on a DOCSIS 3.1 headend that's also using pie?  Pie doesn't need
> to know the outbound rate, correct?  as it's meant to be driven by the
> RTS/CTS type behavior that the upstream traffic on cable has (the correct
> terms for cable aren't coming to mind at the moment).

Correct, PIE acts on the queue just like CODEL. From what I can tell, PIE 
is a queue discipline that can be implemented on hardware that supports 
WRED (which most can) with the help of extra software and some CPU cycles 
to tune it over time. That's why HW manufacturers like PIE.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se



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