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

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Dan Siemon <dan at coverfire.com> writes:

> 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.

Cool. No promises as to when (or even if) I get around to looking at
this; but will ping you when/if I do :)

-Toke