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From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sch_red: fix red_change
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 23:57:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111207225747.GA4758@nuttenaction> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1112051221510.31705@wel-95.cs.helsinki.fi>

* Ilpo Järvinen | 2011-12-05 13:42:44 [+0200]:

>I disagree. If there's any slow starting flow that alone can fill the 
>bottleneck, anything significantly larger than RTT just harms. RED is 
>just "too slow" if you follow the recommended parametrization..
>
>In a core router you can probably get away with multiple RTTs, but near 
>edge that is a grave mistake due to how slow-start behaves. With average 
>based on many RTTs, RED still estimates that the link has low load while 
>congestion has escalated to higher dimensions due to slow start. As a 
>result, RED graciously falls back to tail-drop once the physical queue 
>runs out and the flows respond allowing the load to decrease. However, 
>finally RED reaches a state where it starts to "pro-actively" react to an 
>"incipient congestion"?!? :-/ => Problem is made worse by those extra 
>drops/marks happening too late.

But then one question Ilpo: drive IW10 or IW14 the behavior even worse?
Especially if n connections start almost simultanously? You did some analysis
on this topic.


HGN

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-07 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-30 20:25 [RFC iproute2] sch_red: TC_RED_HARDDROP Eric Dumazet
2011-11-30 22:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-01 21:06   ` [PATCH] sch_red: fix red_change Eric Dumazet
2011-12-01 21:35     ` Dave Taht
2011-12-01 21:48       ` Jim Gettys
2011-12-01 21:57       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-01 22:04         ` Jim Gettys
2011-12-05 11:42         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2011-12-07 22:57           ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer [this message]
2011-12-02  0:25     ` David Miller
2011-11-30 23:29 ` [RFC iproute2] sch_red: TC_RED_HARDDROP Thomas Graf

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