[Cerowrt-devel] Ubiquiti QOS

[Dave Taht]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 4:27 PM, David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2014, Dave Taht wrote:
>
>> There is a phrase in this thread that is begging to bother me.
>>
>> "Throughput". Everyone assumes that throughput is a big goal - and it
>> certainly is - and latency is also a big goal - and it certainly is -
>> but by specifying what you want from "throughput" as a compromise with
>> latency is not the right thing...
>>
>> If what you want is actually "high speed in-order packet delivery" -
>> say, for example a movie,
>> or a video conference, youtube, or a video conference - excessive
>> latency with high throughput, really, really makes in-order packet
>> delivery at high speed tough.
>
>
> the key word here is "excessive", that's why I said that for max throughput
> you want to buffer as much as your latency budget will allow you to.

Again I'm trying to make a distinction between "throughput", and "packets
delivered-in-order-to-the-user." (for-which-we-need-a-new-word-I think)

The buffering should not be in-the-network, it can be in the application.

Take our hypothetical video stream for example. I am 20ms RTT from netflix.
If I artificially inflate that by adding 50ms of in-network buffering,
that means a loss can
take 120ms to recover from.

If instead, I keep a 3*RTT buffer in my application, and expect that I have 5ms
worth of network-buffering, instead, I recover from a loss in 40ms.

(please note, it's late, I might not have got the math entirely right)

As physical RTTs grow shorter, the advantages of smaller buffers grow larger.

You don't need 50ms queueing delay on a 100us path.

Many applications buffer for seconds due to needing to be at least
2*(actual buffering+RTT) on the path.

>
>> You eventually lose a packet, and you have to wait a really long time
>> until a replacement arrives. Stuart and I showed that at last ietf.
>> And you get the classic "buffering" song playing....
>
>
> Yep, and if you buffer too much, your "lost packet" is actually still in
> flight and eating bandwidth.
>
> David Lang
>
>
>> low latency makes recovery from a loss in an in-order stream much, much
>> faster.
>>
>> Honestly, for most applications on the web, what you want is high
>> speed in-order packet delivery, not
>> "bulk throughput". There is a whole class of apps (bittorrent, file
>> transfer) that don't need that, and we
>> have protocols for those....
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:19 PM, David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>>>
>>> the problem is that paths change, they mix traffic from streams, and in
>>> other ways the utilization of the links can change radically in a short
>>> amount of time.
>>>
>>> If you try to limit things to exactly the ballistic throughput, you are
>>> not
>>> going to be able to exactly maintain this state, you are either going to
>>> overshoot (too much traffic, requiring dropping packets to maintain your
>>> minimal buffer), or you are going to undershoot (too little traffic and
>>> your
>>> connection is idle)
>>>
>>> Since you can't predict all the competing traffic throughout the
>>> Internet,
>>> if you want to maximize throughput, you want to buffer as much as you can
>>> tolerate for latency reasons. For most apps, this is more than enough to
>>> cause problems for other connections.
>>>
>>> David Lang
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Mon, 26 May 2014, David P. Reed wrote:
>>>
>>>> Codel and PIE are excellent first steps... but I don't think they are
>>>> the
>>>> best eventual approach.  I want to see them deployed ASAP in CMTS' s and
>>>> server load balancing networks... it would be a disaster to not deploy
>>>> the
>>>> far better option we have today immediately at the point of most
>>>> leverage.
>>>> The best is the enemy of the good.
>>>>
>>>> But, the community needs to learn once and for all that throughput and
>>>> latency do not trade off. We can in principle get far better latency
>>>> while
>>>> maintaining high throughput.... and we need to start thinking about
>>>> that.
>>>> That means that the framing of the issue as AQM is counterproductive.
>>>>
>>>> On May 26, 2014, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 26 May 2014, dpreed at reed.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I would look to queue minimization rather than "queue management"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (which
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> implied queues are often long) as a goal, and think harder about the
>>>>>> end-to-end problem of minimizing total end-to-end queueing delay
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> while
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> maximizing throughput.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As far as I can tell, this is exactly what CODEL and PIE tries to do.
>>>>> They
>>>>> try to find a decent tradeoff between having queues to make sure the
>>>>> pipe
>>>>> is filled, and not making these queues big enough to seriously affect
>>>>> interactive performance.
>>>>>
>>>>> The latter part looks like what LEDBAT does?
>>>>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6817>
>>>>>
>>>>> Or are you thinking about something else?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Sent from my Android device with K-@ Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>
>>>
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