[Cake] Using cake to shape 1000’s of users.

[Dan Siemon]

On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 19:42 +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Dan Siemon <dan at coverfire.com> writes:
> 
> > I haven't had time to try Cake in this context yet but hope to get
> > to
> > that in the next couple months. I believe this will require one
> > Cake
> > instance per-subscriber like we do with FQ-CoDel today.
> 
> Yup, currently it would. It might be possible to extend CAKE's
> architecture to not require this, though. If you are interested in
> pursuing this in the future, let us know; having someone actually
> using
> it would be quite useful if we were to pursue development of this :)

Yes, I'm very interested in this. A single QDisc would simplify things
quite a bit and hopefully be a perf win.

I'm happy to test this locally and with real subscribers once it is
stable enough.