[Cake] Diffserv LLT mode

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Sun Apr 22 06:45:42 EDT 2018


Pete Heist <pete at eventide.io> writes:

>> On Apr 21, 2018, at 6:44 PM, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Improved intra-flow latency could be useful for HTTP/2 or other things, but I don’t see how the current llt mode helps most ordinary people with that, when it would only apply to flows with certain diffserv markings, and doesn’t seem to adjust the target and interval anyway…
>> 
>> Well, at some point the intended functionality seems to have got corrupted, though it could be put back in without difficulty.  But I'm certainly not among LLT's userbase; I put the mode in mostly as a demonstration that Cake could do it if required.  If the originators are no longer pursuing the proposal, then the mode has no reason to exist any more.
>> 
>> The bulk tin often gets its parameters adjusted, by virtue of the fact that its threshold is a small fraction of the total.  It happens in the other modes as well.  Don't take that as significant.
>
> I see. Well, since it’s not working anyway and we haven’t heard
> anything about it, I’m also for carting it away...

Already nuked it from the cobalt branch :)

-Toke


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