Let them run CAKE

Posted Jun 27, 2018 22:56 UTC (Wed) by sml (guest, #75391)
Parent article: Let them run CAKE

As someone who has spent many hours tweaking traffic shaping configurations to fix bufferbloat problems, I can't wait for CAKE to be merged. And then hopefully spread to the BSDs too. Maybe in 10 years bufferbloat will really be a thing of the past.

Thanks to eveyone who has been involved in the development and testing of this patch series!

Let them run CAKE

Posted Jun 28, 2018 8:02 UTC (Thu) by sagi (subscriber, #64671) [Link]

I too would be very happy to see this merged. It really makes a large difference.

Yay for all the people involved with bufferbloat, make-wifi-faster and openwrt (formerly LEDE).

Let them run CAKE

Posted Jun 28, 2018 14:05 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (2 responses)

+1, I've spent many hours tweaking my own home network with CoDel, FQ, BBR/CDG etc. The wifi is stable now, but the ISP-supplied DSL NAT router undoes all that hard work. Maybe by adding CAKE I'll finally see a passing bufferbloat grade on the dslreports speed test…

Let them run CAKE

Posted Feb 13, 2019 7:37 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

This thread's been unearthed in the past week so I may as well add a follow-up here:

CAKE works. It is, dare I say, functionally indistinguishable from magic. I turned off my DSL box's crappy QoS, applied tc-cake on my internal router's ports, and added a bit of source-port DSCP tweaking in nftables.

On the DSLReports speed test I get straight A's and no lag spikes whatsoever. See for yourself: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/45380186

(BTW if the ping times look a bit iffy… it's because my connection's saturated by seeding a dozen torrents. I barely even know they're there.)

Let them run CAKE

Posted Feb 14, 2019 16:48 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Quite. For me, yesterday: getiplayer*3 saturating the line (the line in question being a ten-year-old Soekris box and two even older ADSL routers with very much non-upgradeable firmware and God knows how much bufferbloat built in) but ssh to a remote site over the same link had so little added latency it was not even discernible in ping timings let alone the ssh. That's magic, that is.