> On 23 Mar, 2015, at 02:24, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have long maintained it was possible to build a better fq_codel-like
> policer without doing htb rate shaping, ("bobbie"), and I am tempted
> to give it a go in the coming months.
I have a hazy picture in my mind, now, of how it could be made to work.
A policer doesn’t actually maintain a queue, but it is possible to calculate
when the currently-arriving packet would be scheduled for sending if a shaped
FIFO was present, in much the same way that cake actually performs such
scheduling at the head of a real queue. The difference between that time and
the current time is a virtual sojourn time which can be fed into the Codel
algorithm. Then, when Codel says to drop a packet, you do so.
Because there’s no queue management, timer interrupts nor flow segregation, the
overhead should be significantly lower than an actual queue. And there’s a
reasonable hope that involving Codel will give better results than either a
brick-wall or a token bucket.
- Jonathan Morton
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