[Bloat] Adding CAKE "tc qdisc" options to NetworkManager

[Jonathan Morton]

> On 5 Oct, 2020, at 7:13 pm, David Collier-Brown <davecb.42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> By pure luck, I ended up chatting with one of the NetworkManager chaps, who invited a merge request with the proper parameters for CAKE.
> 
> He wrote
> 
> Currently NM doesn't support configuring CAKE parameters. IOW, if you
> set "root cake bandwidth 100Mbit", you will see in the tc output that
> cake was set but with default parameters.
> 
> Yes, I think it will be useful to have CAKE support in NM, but I can't
> say when it will be implemented. Of course, patches are always
> welcome; if anybody is interested in contributing it, please have a
> look at the work that was done to support SFQ:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/b22b4f9101b1cbfde49b65d9e2107e4ae0d817c0
> 
> Sounds like a good job for next weekend, can I get some reviewers for the week after?

I could probably at least glance at it.  How easy is it to set this up in, say, Linux Mint?

 - Jonathan Morton