[Cerowrt-devel] Packet Pacing

[Dave Taht]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Iain R. Learmonth <irl at fsfe.org> wrote:
> Sup,
>
> I am attempting to perform some measurements using CoDel, PIE and
> DropTail using the CeroWRT platform but the rate-limiting appears to be
> happening before the queuing. The problem here is that there's no
> bottleneck between the queue and the output and so the AQM isn't really
> doing anything.

Huh? The SQM system creates a bottleneck and then various selectable AQM
technologies manage the queue in front, which is exactly what you want.

Note: In terms of strict pacing, the htb rate limiter system uses an increasing
quantum size to release bigger bursts of packets as we go to higher speeds.
(I think it starts increasing the quantum > MTU at about 20Mbit) -
this is because
the cpu scheduler can't effectively deliver single packets and still be useful
for other stuff.

see /usr/lib/sqm/ for details... or the gui...

If instead you want to run at line rate (10 or 100Mbit) there is
ethtool for that.

>
> I'd like to pace packets being dequeued to allow for the creation of a
> bottleneck where the output is the same link speed as the upstream link.

You can do this in multiple ways.


> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Iain.
>
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