<p dir="ltr">That would imply an unresponsive flow (or a large aggregation of flows in one queue, which would require a high drop rate to respond).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Indeed, the Codel algorithm in itself doesn't guarantee any latency bound. Only a hard limit on queue length can do that (or forcibly dropping packets with sojourn times above the limit). Practical qdisc implementations do have such mechanisms.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Flow isolation helps in such circumstances, especially if the qdisc drops from the longest queue on enqueue overflow.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> - Jonathan Morton<br>
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