[Bloat] Netperf re-licensed as MIT

[Dave Taht]

most of the latency related portions of flent use irtt, which I think
is a lot more solid than anything else.

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 2:44 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> so glad to hear the license has been fixed.
>
> carl, iperf is only used in a few of flent's tests. We trusted netperf
> - as did the linux kernel developers - a lot further than all the
> iperf variants combined - at the time we started work on flent.
>
> I would not mind us somehow developing a drop in replacement for
> netperf, perhaps leveraging the irtt codebase, as I have a long
> standing desire to be able to reliably measure latencies and the
> output of TCP_INFO in "some" tool below 250us.
>
> iperf has come a long way, but getting to where I could trust the
> largely "academic" codebase it was would take a ton of benchmarking.
>
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 2:09 PM Klatsky, Carl via Bloat
> <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> >
> > Toke,
> >
> > How you see this coming into Flent?  My understanding is that for latency & load test like RRUL:
> >
> > -iperf provides the bandwidth portion
> > -IRTT provides the latency portion, and if IRTT is not found, the test falls back to ICMP for the latency check
> >
> > Would netperf replace iperf for the bandwidth portion?  Do you see it being used for the latency portion?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carl
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bloat <bloat-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net> On Behalf Of Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via Bloat
> > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 7:32 PM
> > To: bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net>
> > Subject: [Bloat] Netperf re-licensed as MIT
> >
> > Hopefully this means we can get it packaged for the distros that have thus far refused to because of the license - i.e., Debian and Fedora!
> >
> > -Toke
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