[Rpm] Re: [Bloat] Re: [Cake] CAKE-MQ merged to OpenWrt 25.12 today (February 15)

Stephen Hemminger
2026-02-17T06:41:43Z

On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:10:31 -0800
dave seddon <dave.seddon.ca@gmail.com> wrote:

> Woot woot!
>
> Thanks for the mq-cake patches. !
>
> I got them working on NixOS 6.12 ( and next-net patches on 6.18.8 )
>
> [das@l2:~/nixos/desktop/l2/mq-cake-orchestrator]$ uname -a
> Linux l2 6.12.68 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 30 09:28:49 UTC
> 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> I'm currently setting up a load-testing harness. The idea will be to
> generate MANY 5-tuple flows to really stress out the qdiscs
>
> Early results, but they look great!

How fast is the CPU, because on current Arm Cortex-A53 cake is cpu
limited and max's out around 500Mbps but can do fq-codel at 900.
Could be fixed by tuning?