netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v12 3/7] sch_cake: Add optional ACK filter

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Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 21:27:07 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cake List <cake@...ts.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v12 3/7] sch_cake: Add optional ACK filter

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 4:23 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk> wrote:
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> writes:
>
>> On 05/16/2018 01:29 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>>> The ACK filter is an optional feature of CAKE which is designed to improve
>>> performance on links with very asymmetrical rate limits. On such links
>>> (which are unfortunately quite prevalent, especially for DSL and cable
>>> subscribers), the downstream throughput can be limited by the number of
>>> ACKs capable of being transmitted in the *upstream* direction.
>>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>
>>> ---
>>>  net/sched/sch_cake.c |  260 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 258 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I have decided to implement ACK compression in TCP stack itself.
>
> Awesome! Will look forward to seeing that!

+1

It is really odd to put into a TC qdisc, TCP stack is a much better
place.