[Cerowrt-devel] Problems testing sqm

[Alan Jenkins]

On 23/10/2015, Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a shiny new Linksys WRT1900ACS to test.
>
> I thought it might be nice to start with some comparisons of factory
> firmware vs OpenWRT with sqm enabled.
>
> So I built and installed an openwrt trunk but the results were very
> non-impressive.  Rrul test reported mulit-seconds of latency and it was
> equally non-impressive with sqm enabled or disabled.  So I assumed that
> sqm in trunk on this device must not work yet.  Then I wondered how well
> sqm in trunk was tested and that perhaps its broken for all devices.
>
> So I tested openwrt trunk on my Netgear 3700v2 and saw the same results.
> Then I tried openwrt cc and got the same results.
>
> Finally, I went to the reference implementation: cerowrt 3.10.50-1 on my
> 3700v2.  Same results.
>
> So at this point I'm thinking there's a PEBKAC issue and I'm not really
> turning it on.
>
> Here's my enable procedure:
>
> Go the sqm tab in the GUI and set egress and ingress to 10000, set the
> interface to the upstream interface,  click enable, click save and
> apply. Everything else is left at default. ie fq_codel and simple.qos.

Your description misses at least one step from the official how-to.
May be worth checking:

 Start and Enable the SQM scripts. To do this, choose System → Startup
    Click Start to start the SQM process
    Click Enable to start the SQM process when the route reboots

The how-to is here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/sqm


The original qos-scripts definitely required that step.  IIRC, it's an
openwrt convention that installing a package doesn't automatically
enable its startup script.  However this wasn't strictly necessary for
at least some drafts of the sqm code.  I don't know if the current
version needs it or not.

> I've also tried a reboot after enabling those settings and then gone
> back to the gui to verify they were still set.
>
> My test setup:
>
> Laptop<--1000BaseT-->DUT<--1000baseT-->Server
>
> I run netperf-wrapper -H Server -l 30 rrul and look at the 'totals' or
> 'all' plot.
>
> If I run the above with this setup.
>
> Laptop<--1000baseT-->Server
>
> Then I get the expected 800-900Mbit/s with latencies < 15ms.  So I don't
> think there's a problem with my test infrastructure.
>
> What am I missing and or what's the next step in figuring out whats wrong?
>
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