netdev - Re: RED + ECN not working

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:38:48 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	rbj2@...t.edu
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RED + ECN not working

On 09-01-2007 17:08, rbj2@...t.edu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to get the RED qdisc and ECN to work for the past few weeks
> and all my experiments have failed. Here is the setup I am using. 
> 
> Src -- R1 -- R2 -- Dst
> 
> Between Src and R1 is a 100Mbps link and between R1 and R2 a 10Mbps link. I set up
> the qdisc at R1 as follows
> 
> tc qdisc add dev eth3 root handle 1: prio
> tc qdisc add dev eth3 parent 1:1 handle 10: sfq
> tc qdisc add dev eth3 parent 1:2 handle 20: sfq
> tc qdisc add dev eth3 parent 1:3 handle 30: red limit 10000 min 3000 max 5000
> avpkt 1000 burst 5 probability 0.5 bandwidth 256kbit ecn
> 
> I also inserted printk statments inside the code to print the calculate queue average (RED param), the 
> backlog (Qdisc param) and the queue length (sk_buff_head param). I also inserted print statements for 
> each action of RED i.e. DONT_MARK, PROB_MARK, HARD_MARK and DROP.
> 
> For the purpose of my experiments, I transferred a 25 MB file. I also did 100 simultaneous TCP 
> transfers for 2 mins using ipref. In all cases none of the packets were either marked or dropped by the 
> RED code. This was verified by the print statements in the logs. For all runs, qavg and backlog were 0 
> and qlen was 1. 
> 
> I have even tried classless red and got same results. Does anyone know whether RED+ECN work ? Any 
> tests and setups that someone has used and got successful results ? I would really appreciate any input 
> or suggestions on this.

Hi,

Did you try with lartc.org list? 

And probably there could be more details, like:
- where is eth3
- tc -s -d qdisc show dev eth3 (before and after the transfer)
- kernel and iproute versions

Regards,

Jarek P.
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