[Cerowrt-devel] htb has internal pfifo queue

[Eric Dumazet]

This 'direct' queue is only used if one of your filter explicitly
targets the '0' classid of htb qdisc as in :

(Note the 'direct_packets_stat 1145408' in tc qdisc output)



lpq83:~# cat fq_codel0.sh
DEV=eth4
CEIL="ceil 10000Mbit"
EST="est 1sec 4sec"

tc qdisc del dev $DEV root 2>/dev/null

tc qdisc add dev $DEV root handle 1: est 1sec 8sec htb default 1
tc class add dev $DEV parent 1: classid 1:1 $EST htb rate 1Gbit $CEIL
mtu 1500 quantum 1514
tc class add dev $DEV parent 1: classid 1:2 $EST htb rate 1Gbit $CEIL
mtu 1500 quantum 1514

# access to direct queue : following trafic doesnt need overhead of an
htb_class,
# as we do not want it to be shaped at all.
tc filter add dev $DEV parent 1: protocol ip u32 \
match ip dst 7.7.7.84 flowid 1:0

lpq83:~# ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84;tc -s qd sh dev eth4
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.00    18390.46
qdisc htb 1: root refcnt 257 r2q 10 default 1 direct_packets_stat 1145408
 Sent 67913929786 bytes 46865570 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 11)
 rate 13754Mbit 1186190pps backlog 0b 0p requeues 11

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> In looking over the htb mess, I noticed that htb has an internal pfifo
> queue, which is controllable via new stuff in net-next.
>
> http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~cero2/htb_mess/11256-htb-add-HTB_DIRECT_QLEN-attribute.patch
>
> I have no idea what, if anything, it affects. I was under the
> impression, until now, that htb buffered up one, and only one packet
> no matter how many classes you have. Still am retaining that
> impression...
>
> Ah well... fiddling with setting txqueuelen to 2 on  the device on
> 3.8.13-7 before running the aqm script might have an interesting
> result on simple.qos, if anyone wants to try it.
>
> such a backlog of stuff to sort through!
>
> --
> Dave Täht
>
> Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html