From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Furniss Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:53:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] how to guarantee 1/numflows bandwidth to each Message-Id: <42828CCE.3050104@dsl.pipex.com> List-Id: References: <20050509181700.GA32621@vaxerdec.bmt.questra.com> In-Reply-To: <20050509181700.GA32621@vaxerdec.bmt.questra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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. > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list > LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc