Re: [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] Van Jacobson's slides on timing wheels at netdevconf

2018-07-21 Thread Jonathan Morton
> On 20 Jul, 2018, at 5:47 pm, Luca Muscariello > wrote: > > and C) you can implement any packet scheduler using a timing wheel using > virtual times. To do this perfectly, you have to assume that no packets will arrive within your scheduling horizon which should be scheduled within that

Re: [Bloat] Van Jacobson's slides on timing wheels at netdevconf

2018-07-21 Thread Matthias Tafelmeier
> B) that NIC support seems > needed. I can think of a lot of things I'd like to have in a NIC > (which certainly include default timestamping on rx and multiple kinds > of X-tuple hash) - but hadn't thought about replacing queues entirely! Still fond of the notion of RX|TX sk buffers wandering