[Cake] Upstream submission of dual-mode fairness patch

[Sebastian Moeller]

Hi Jonathan,


> On Mar 3, 2019, at 10:58, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 3 Mar, 2019, at 11:53 am, Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> Doesn't this look like ingress magic being applied selectively to the users based on number of flows? I thought that the idea behind the ingress keyword is to effectively shape harder the more bulk flows are coming in. 
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> No, it simply counts dropped packets against the shaper, as well as those actually transmitted.  

	Sure, but the question is how is the resulting "pressure" to drop/mark distributed over the existing (bulk) flows.

> There shouldn't be that many packets being dropped to make this much of a difference.

	My intuition (probably wrong) is that is not the few packets dropped, but the fact that the the dropping does seem to be restricted to the flows of the IP with more flows, no?

Best Regards
	Sebastian

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> - Jonathan Morton
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