[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v8 0/2] Implement Airtime-based Queue Limit (AQL)

[Kan Yan]

> In theory, this ought to produce a histogram of sojourn times (in
> microseconds):
> bpftrace -e 'kretprobe:codel_skb_time_func { @sojourn = lhist((nsecs -
(retval << 10))/1000, 0, 100000, 1000); }'

Thanks for the tips!

> Can't get the CoDel drop mechanism to trigger on my system at all,
> though (a laptop running on iwl). I guess because there's queue
> backpressure to userspace first?

What's the tcp_congestion_control in your system? Maybe it is BBR that
prevents bufferbloat.

> It would be interesting to see if it works for you, assuming you can get
> bpftrace to work on your test system :)

I can enable required kernel configuration easily, but cross-compile
bpftrace for an ARM64 platform may take some time and effort.


On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:05 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Kan Yan <kyan at google.com> writes:
>
> >> It would be interesting to get some samples of the actual sojourn time
> >> as seen by CoDel in mac80211. Might be doable with bpftrace...
> >
> > I will try to add some trace event to get the sojourn time for the
> > next round of tests.
>
> In theory, this ought to produce a histogram of sojourn times (in
> microseconds):
>
> bpftrace -e 'kretprobe:codel_skb_time_func { @sojourn = lhist((nsecs -
> (retval << 10))/1000, 0, 100000, 1000); }'
>
>
> Can't get the CoDel drop mechanism to trigger on my system at all,
> though (a laptop running on iwl). I guess because there's queue
> backpressure to userspace first?
>
> It would be interesting to see if it works for you, assuming you can get
> bpftrace to work on your test system :)
>
> -Toke
>
>
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