[Bloat] How about a topical LWN article on demonstrating the real-world goodness of CAKE?

[David Collier-Brown]

  I suspect not enough people are aware of the later efforts of the 
bufferbloat team, so I'm thinking of one or two articles, starting with 
LWN and an audience of aficionados.

The core community is aware of what we've done, but in my view we 
haven't converted "grandma". Grandma, as well as a whole bunch of 
ordinary engineers and partners of engineers, are dependent on debloated 
performance because they're working at home now, and competing with 
granddaughter playing video games while they're trying to hold a video call.

Right now, my colleagues at work suffer from more than a second of 
bloat-related lag. They therefore tend to speak over each other on 
con-calls, apologize, start again and talk over each other, again. After 
a little while, the picture becomes a distinctly silly one: a bunch of 
grown adults putting their hands up and waving, like little kids in 
school. No-one has called out “me, me, teacher” yet, but I expect it any 
time.

I propose we show the results in terms that we can explain to Grandma, 
specifically concentrating on functioning VOIP. I just upgraded to 
Fedora 31, and the networking is absolutely stock, so I make a perfect 
victim/guinea-pig (;-))

Who's interested?


--dave
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David Collier-Brown,                     | Always do right. This will 
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