<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Right, so some benefit might be possible here. Does the NIC have<br class="">multiple hardware queues (`ls /sys/class/net/$IFACE/queues` should tell<br class="">you)?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Here is the output of:<div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-size: 11px;" class="">/sys/devices/virtual/net/eth0.2/queues# ls</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(86, 32, 244);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><b class="">rx-0</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><b class="">tx-0</b></span></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-size: 11px;" class="">/sys/devices/virtual/net/eth0.2/queues/rx-0# cat rps_cpus </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-size: 11px;" class="">0</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-size: 11px;" class="">/sys/devices/virtual/net/eth0.2/queues/tx-0# cat xps_cpus </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-size: 11px;" class="">0</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">Yup, the number of cores is only going to go up, so for CAKE to stay<br class="">relevant it'll need to be able to take advantage of this eventually :)</blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>True, the mid-range market is already there, and so soon will be the lower-end.</div><div>And with ISPs lighting up more and more capacity, the demand will be there to be able to shape higher and higher rates.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>But I agree with Jonathan Morton that once every deice has sufficient capacity, more makes no difference. </div><div>I went for 100/15 to 300/24 and never noticed the difference.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Hell, there are days I switch to my backup 10/0.7 DSL line for a test, and forget to switch back, and will work for hours and not notice I’m not on the 300Mbps line ;-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Jonathan</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 1, 2020, at 5:11 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <<a href="mailto:toke@toke.dk" class="">toke@toke.dk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Jonathan Foulkes <<a href="mailto:jf@jonathanfoulkes.com" class="">jf@jonathanfoulkes.com</a>> writes:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Thanks Toke, we currently are on an MT7621a @880, so a dual-core.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Right, so some benefit might be possible here. Does the NIC have<br class="">multiple hardware queues (`ls /sys/class/net/$IFACE/queues` should tell<br class="">you)?<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">And we are looking for a good quad-core platform that will support<br class="">600Mbps or more with Cake enabled, hopefully with AX radios as well.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Yup, the number of cores is only going to go up, so for CAKE to stay<br class="">relevant it'll need to be able to take advantage of this eventually :)<br class=""><br class="">-Toke<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>