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<p>On 2020-09-03 10:32 a.m., Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via Bloat wrote
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Yeah, offloading of some sort is another option, but I consider that
outside of the "CAKE stays relevant" territory, since that will most
likely involve an entirely programmable packet scheduler. There was some
discussion of adding such a qdisc to Linux at LPC[0]. The Eiffel[1]
algorithm seems promising.
-Toke</pre>
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<p>I'm wondering if edge servers with 1Gb NICs are inside the "CAKE
stays relevant" territory? <br>
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<p>My main customer/employer has a gazillion of those, currently
reporting</p>
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<p>because their OS is just a tiny bit elderly (;-)). We we're
planning to roll forward this quarter to centos 8.2, where CAKE is
an option.</p>
<p>It strikes me that the self-tuning capacity of CAKE might be
valuable for a whole <i>class</i> of small rack-mounted machines,
but you just mentioned the desire for better multi-processor
support.</p>
<p>Am I reaching for the moon, or is this something within reach?</p>
<p>--dave<br>
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David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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