[Cake] tossing acks into the background queue

[Dave Taht]

The context of my question is basically this:

Is cake baked? Is it done?

Is there anything from libreQos that would be better in C?

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:17 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:07 PM Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> >
> > On 23 November 2021 06:03:03 CET, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >ages ago I'd (we'd? I really don't remember - forgive me if I've
> > >forgotten who actually leaned in on it) written a basic ack-filter in
> > >ebpf. this was before cake gained tc actions and my primary use for
> > >the tech was for asymmetric connections, and before the good
> > >ack-filter arrived, and I was (and remain) unfriendly to this level of
> > >dpi.
> > >
> > >That said, on a symmetric connection, deprioritizing pure acks to the
> > >5% background queue nd then turning the cake ack-filter loose on it
> > >might actually work.
> > >
> > >Am I on drugs/is there any point?
> >
> > I think at leat when using multiple priority tins forward and reverse traffic should by default use the same tin (I can see non-standard situations that want differential treatment). The argument is that unlike earlier attempts at ingress shaping that tried to throttle reverse ACKs? cake/codel do proper 'hit the brakes' signalling via marking/dropping and we want that signal to reach the other end as quickly as possible, no?
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> My thought was basically an optional filter that steered all pure acks
> (no matter the classification) into the background queue.
> Non-pure-acks (sacks) essentially jump the background queue and signal
> that loss earlier. The backlog of other acks in background get
> delivered out of order, but purely out of order and discarded by the
> reciever.
>
> > Regards
> >         Sebastian
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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