From: Andy Furniss <andy.furniss@dsl.pipex.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] how to guarantee 1/numflows bandwidth to each
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:53:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42828CCE.3050104@dsl.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050509181700.GA32621@vaxerdec.bmt.questra.com>
Scott Mcdermott wrote:
> I am looking for a simple way to guarantee to each flow
> going through my traffic control point 1/numflows of
> bandwidth. I thought using SFQ would do this effectively
> but it appears to be quite unfair: a very high speed
> download that fills the pipe easily starves smaller flows to
> the point where it becomes unusable (especially if they are
> at all interactive)
If you are shaping from the "wrong" end of the bottleneck then you need
to back off from link speed to get control - and it still won't be perfect.
It's best to priorotise interactive traffic and not mix it with bulk
traffic.
Andy.
>
> Because numflows is dynamic, I'm not sure how I would have
> the bandwidth allocated to each flow change dynamically and
> automatically as flows are added and removed.
>
> Anyone have an idea how to implement this? Thanks.
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-09 18:17 [LARTC] how to guarantee 1/numflows bandwidth to each flow Scott Mcdermott
2005-05-10 18:42 ` Krystian Antoni
2005-05-11 3:35 ` [LARTC] how to guarantee 1/numflows bandwidth to each gypsy
2005-05-11 22:53 ` Andy Furniss [this message]
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