[Cerowrt-devel] Problems testing sqm

[David Lang]

with the wrt1900ACS, the WAN ethernet is connected to a switch before connecting 
to the wire. I believe that this causes some issues with the sqm default setup 
(or is it with the fq_codel?)

David Lang

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Dave Taht wrote:

> you are most likely applying the qdisc to the wrong ethernet device or
> ethernet vlan.
> Dave Täht
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>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 6:10 PM, 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Richard A. Smith
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