Sun, May 10, 2020 at 06:30:59PM CEST, dave.t...@gmail.com wrote: >On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 7:46 AM Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: >> >> Hello guys. >> >> Anyone has any opinion on the proposal? Or should I take it as a silent >> agreement? :) >> >> We would like to go ahead and start sending patchsets. > >I gotta say that the whole thing makes my head really hurt, and while >this conversation is about how to go about configuring things, >I've been unable to get a grip on how flows will actually behave with >these offloads present.
As you said, this is about configuration. Not the actual packet processing. > >My overall starting point for thinking about this stuff was described >in this preso to broadcom a few years back: >http://flent-fremont.bufferbloat.net/~d/broadcom_aug9.pdf > >More recently I did what I think is my funniest talk ever on these >subjects: >https://blog.apnic.net/2020/01/22/bufferbloat-may-be-solved-but-its-not-over-yet/ > >Make some popcorn, take a look. :) I should probably have covered >ecn's (mis)behaviors at the end, but I didn't. > >Steven hemminger's lca talk on these subjects was also a riot... > >so somehow going from my understanding of how stuff gets configured, >to the actual result, is needed, for me to have any opinion at all. >You >have this stuff basically running already? Can you run various >flent.org tests through it? > >> >> Thanks! > > > >-- >"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public >relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled" - Richard Feynman > >d...@taht.net <Dave Täht> CTO, TekLibre, LLC Tel: 1-831-435-0729
