Re: Bypass qdiscs?

[John Ousterhout <ouster@cs.stanford.edu>]

Hi David,

Thanks for the suggestion, but if I understand this correctly, this
will disable qdiscs for TCP as well as Homa; I suspect I shouldn't do
that?

-John-


On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 8:27 PM David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/5/23 8:23 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 19:47:30 -0700
> > John Ousterhout <ouster@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> I haven't tried creating a "pass through" qdisc, but that seems like a
> >> reasonable approach if (as it seems) there isn't something already
> >> built-in that provides equivalent functionality.
> >>
> >> -John-
> >>
> >> P.S. If hardware starts supporting Homa, I hope that it will be
> >> possible to move the entire transport to the NIC, so that applications
> >> can bypass the kernel entirely, as with RDMA.
> >
> > One old trick was setting netdev queue length to 0 to avoid qdisc.
> >
>
> tc qdisc replace dev <name> root noqueue
>
> should work