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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
Cc: dickroy@alum.mit.edu, starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net,
	 Simon Barber <simon@superduper.net>,
	bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] [Bloat]  Of interest: Comcast AQM Paper
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 14:46:30 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.2108041445470.13354@uplift.swm.pp.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJq5cE0vJdVc=q1QjeTsG5ShdL4rpwVhNWZsVyTRPgfXhXH+ug@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, Jonathan Morton wrote:

> Linux-based CPE devices have AQM functionality integrated into the Wifi 
> stack.  The AQM itself operates at layer 3, but the Linux Wifi stack 
> implementation uses information from layers 2 and 4 to improve 
> scheduling decisions, eg. airtime-fairness and flow-isolation (FQ). This 
> works best on soft-MAC Wifi hardware, such as ath9k/10k and MT76, where 
> this information is most readily available to software.  In principle it 
> could also be implemented in the MAC, but I don't know of any vendor 
> that's done that yet.

Does this work also with flowoffload enabled, or is that not accelerated 
on for instance MT76? I'm surprised since MT76 can barely do 100 meg/s of 
large packets using only CPU?

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-04 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-01 20:20 Livingood, Jason
2021-08-01 21:39 ` Dick Roy
2021-08-04 11:49   ` Jonathan Morton
2021-08-04 12:46     ` Mikael Abrahamsson [this message]
2021-08-04 13:03       ` Sebastian Moeller
2021-08-04 13:06         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2021-08-04 13:43           ` Sebastian Moeller
2021-08-04 18:28             ` Jonathan Morton
2021-08-04 20:44               ` David Lang
2021-08-04 20:51               ` Sebastian Moeller
2021-08-04 18:31           ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2021-08-04 18:58             ` Jonathan Morton
2021-08-04 20:08               ` Jonathan Bennett
2021-08-04 20:18                 ` Nathan Owens
2021-08-04 20:46                   ` Jonathan Bennett
2021-08-05  0:24                     ` Michael Richardson
2021-08-05 15:11                       ` Frank Carmickle
2021-08-07 23:59                         ` Michael Richardson
2021-08-07 20:31   ` Dave Taht
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-08-01 20:21 Livingood, Jason
2021-07-30 21:28 [Starlink] " Livingood, Jason
2021-07-31 17:50 ` [Starlink] [Bloat] " Simon Barber
2021-07-31 19:26   ` Aaron Wood
2021-07-31 22:55     ` Neal Cardwell
2021-08-01 13:13       ` Michael Richardson

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