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Power impact of debufferbloating

Power impact of debufferbloating

Posted Sep 15, 2011 21:43 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: Power impact of debufferbloating by njs
Parent article: LPC: An update on bufferbloat

So what we want is prioritization, but the only way we can get it is to reduce the device buffers as small as possible, to force packets back up into the qdisc.

Not necessarily. There may be hardware support for queues with differing priority. The mqprio qdisc takes advantage of this.


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