[Make-wifi-fast] Software rate limiting with fq_codel for point-to-point WiFi backhaul links

[David Lang]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2016, Jeremy Harris wrote:

> On 09/12/16 13:41, David Lang wrote:
>> The whole mess of estimating bandwidth and throttling to keep below that
>> estimate is only needed when the device(s) that you have control over
>> are not the ones directly adjacent to the bottleneck.
>
> Would you be better-off if the bottleneck did CE-marking and you used
> ECN-capable protocols and ECN-enabled endpoint network stacks?

I don't think it would be nearly as good.

As I understand it, you would need ECN support on every device in the path for 
it to work at all.

David Lang