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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>, starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] on using and debugging lossless congestion control (RFC3168 ECN)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:56:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw5eRq3EL_1qNwXOAefYKwoWwP=qw6kTUx0cCi+O4OCBSw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw6sgcfbf6UF5TrUuFtDaeHguXEPizduebvqJOh-d6dXMQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 8:47 AM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 8:06 AM Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
> >     > It came up recently that a lot of folk don't like the idea of dropping
> >     > packets as a congestion
> >     > control mechanism. Like loss or not... the fundamental paper on this
> >     > subject is Van Jacobson and Mike Karels:
> >
> >     > "On congestion avoidance and control"
> >
> >     > http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs244/papers/CongestionControl.pdf
> >
> > I saved this post a long time ago.
> > http://www.sandelman.ca/mcr/humour/vanj-enet-posting.txt

From that piece:

"funding agents looking for high speed,
next-generation networks may forget that research to make slow
things go fast sometimes makes fast things go faster".

Recently I dusted off fq_codel_fast in light of the cache misses
finally showing up
in a 100gbit dual bonded scenario over here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=848ca9182a7d25bb54955c3aab9a3a2742bf9678

asked the author to give it a try.





> That was a *great* piece of history thx. And he referenced greg
> chesson's work on XTP,
> ( https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/distinguished/9560 )
>
> Greg was an early consultant to the bufferbloat project...
> he sadly passed before we ever had a chance to jam together.
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9795462
>
> > There is another one about how he crashed Interop, which I don't know where I
> > put.
>
> More folk should have seen van's codel preso at ietf 84. It was the
> very very early days of webrtc.
>
> https://archive.org/details/video1_20191129
> >
> > --
> > ]               Never tell me the odds!                 | ipv6 mesh networks [
> > ]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works        |    IoT architect   [
> > ]     mcr@sandelman.ca  http://www.sandelman.ca/        |   ruby on rails    [
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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> Dave Täht CTO, TekLibre, LLC



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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-21 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-21  8:41 Dave Taht
     [not found] ` <20160.1624287984@localhost>
2021-06-21 15:47   ` Dave Taht
2021-06-21 15:56     ` Dave Taht [this message]
2021-06-23  1:20       ` Doc Searls
2021-06-23 18:18         ` [Starlink] Q Dave Taht

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