Re: knob to disable locally-originating qdisc optimisation?

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:54:30 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> when traffic (e.g. iperf) is originating locally (as opposed to
> forward traffic), the Linux kernel seems to apply some optimisations
> probably to reduce overall bufferbloat: when the qdisc is “full” or
> (and especially) when its dequeue often returns NULL (because packets
> are delayed), the sender traffic rate is reduced by as much as ⅓ with
> 40 ms extra latency (30 → 20 Mbit/s).

Doesn't ring a bell, what's your setup?

> This is probably good in general but not so good for L4S where we
> actually want the packets to queue up in the qdisc so they get ECN
> marking appropriately (I guess there probably are some socket ioctls
> or something with which the sending application could detect this
> state; if so, we’d be interested in knowing about them as well).
> 
> This is especially bad in a testbed for writing L4S-aware applications,
> so if there’s a knob (sysctl or something) to disable this optimisation
> please do tell (I guess probably not, but asking doesn’t hurt).