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

dave seddon
2026-02-17T06:10:44Z

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!

[das@l2:~/nixos/desktop/l2/mq-cake-orchestrator]$ sudo
./mq-cake-orchestrator --config config-test.yaml
mq-cake-orchestrator starting...
Config: 1 tools, 3 qdiscs, 2 flow counts

=== Pre-flight Checks ===
Pre-flight: namespaces exist... OK
Pre-flight: interfaces present... OK
Pre-flight: forwarding enabled... OK
Pre-flight: end-to-end ping... OK
Pre-flight: tools available... OK
Pre-flight: baseline latency... OK

=== Pre-flight Complete ===
Running 6 test points

[1/6] qdisc=fq_codel flows=1 tool=iperf2
Switching qdisc to fq_codel...
Throughput: 9.41 Gbps
[2/6] qdisc=fq_codel flows=10 tool=iperf2
Throughput: 9.43 Gbps
[3/6] qdisc=cake flows=1 tool=iperf2
Switching qdisc to cake...
Throughput: 6.93 Gbps
[4/6] qdisc=cake flows=10 tool=iperf2
Throughput: 4.37 Gbps <---- cake
[5/6] qdisc=mq-cake flows=1 tool=iperf2
Switching qdisc to mq-cake...
Throughput: 7.17 Gbps
[6/6] qdisc=mq-cake flows=10 tool=iperf2
Throughput: 9.44 Gbps <-----
mq-cake ... Actually, that's interesting. higher than fq_codel

=== Test Complete ===
Completed 6 test points
Wrote /tmp/mq-cake-results/results-20260216-220443.json
Wrote /tmp/mq-cake-results/results-20260216-220443.csv
Results saved to /tmp/mq-cake-results
Shutdown complete

[das@l2:~/nixos/desktop/l2/mq-cake-orchestrator]$

I'm using some intel cards, which I've adjusted to x8 queues each

[das@l2:~/nixos/desktop/l2/mq-cake-orchestrator]$ lspci | grep -i eth
| grep -i intel
23:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller
X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)
23:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller
X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)
42:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit
SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
42:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit
SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)

On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM Frantisek Borsik
<frantisek.borsik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cake-mq-backport-of-multi-core-capable-cake-implementation-to-25-12-branch/246349/37
>
> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/28569
>
> All the best,
>
> Frank
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