From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew McGregor Subject: Re: BQL crap and wireless Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:59:05 +1200 Message-ID: <903AA8A8-9ACD-44FB-9BA8-50137359EC2B@gmail.com> References: <4E5C3B47.1050809@freedesktop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Dave Taht , Tom Herbert , linux-wireless , Matt Smith , Kevin Hayes , Derek Smithies , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jim Gettys Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E5C3B47.1050809-CC+yJ3UmIYqDUpFQwHEjaQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 30/08/2011, at 1:22 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: > The gotcha is we don't have a AQM algorithm known to work in > the face of the highly dynamic bandwidth variation that is wireless It's worse than highly dynamic... the bandwidth may be completely undefined moment to moment, as it is dependent on both the wireless environment, which varies on timescales that can be about equal to a packet transmit time, and on the traffic mix. There's about 30 ms of correlation time at best. > This was/is > the great surprise to me as I had always thought of AQM as a property of > internet routers, not hosts. There's no distinction in the forwarding plane, every router is a host, every host is a router. Andrew-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html