[Cake] Long-RTT broken again

Sebastian Moeller moeller0 at gmx.de
Tue Nov 3 12:52:51 EST 2015


Hi Toke,

On Nov 3, 2015, at 18:49 , Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:

> Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> I guess I have constantly been talking about a different limit than you,
>> sorry. I was and still am advocating for the hard memory limit.
> 
> Well, if we add a 'limit' parameter that limits memory consumption
> rather than queue space measured in packet size, then it will function
> different than the same parameter of all other qdiscs. Hardly a good
> idea, I'd say?

	Except, both are strongly correlated in practise, by virtue of each packet pinning a 2KB skb, I do not care too much if there is a constant factor required to get from packet limit to memory or not. What I really want is that halving the limit halves the memory demand ;). 

Best Regards
	Sebastian

> 
> -Toke




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