[Cake] Cake not more CPU efficient than HTB+FQ-CoDel (anymore)?

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> writes:

>> On 11 Apr, 2018, at 6:24 pm, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> So, um, did we cram so many features into Cake that it no longer uses
>> less CPU? Can anyone confirm these results?
>
> To be sure about this, it seems wise to configure Cake to turn off as
> many of the new features as possible. That means selecting "besteffort
> flows nonat" mode at least.
>
> I forget whether simplest.qos correctly uses the built-in shaper with
> Cake, rather than just layering it with HTB as usual. If not, then of
> course Cake will use more CPU, and we should be grateful that it's by
> a relatively small margin (maybe 15%).

It is definitely using Cake as the shaper; in besteffort mode, but with
nat and triple-isolation enabled I think. I'll run another test tomorrow
with those disabled.

> There's also a minor complication in that Cake and fq_codel behave
> differently when handed superpackets. A fair comparison requires
> switching aggregation modes off for both of them.

I *think* offloads were turned off for those tests; but I'll double
check... Also would be nice to get a measure of the smoothness of the
shaper; will see if I can't extract that from a pcap file or
something...

-Toke