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

[Dave Collier-Brown]

Alas, once I looked under the covers, it doesn't look easy at all.
Definitely not a weekend project.

I used to use QEF, and this reminds me of it.

--dave

On 2020-10-05 1:33 p.m., Jonathan Morton wrote:
>> 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

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