Re: Preparing for discussion on what to do about the multipath extension milestone
Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com> Wed, 30 September 2020 14:29 UTC
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From: Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:29:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: Preparing for discussion on what to do about the multipath extension milestone
To: Olivier Bonaventure <Olivier.Bonaventure@uclouvain.be>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 3:17 PM Olivier Bonaventure < Olivier.Bonaventure@uclouvain.be> wrote: > Lucas, > > > It's this special sauce that concerns me. > I don't know how I'd > objectively measure that the MP-QUIC design and all > > the implementation effort would actual result in improvement. For > > instance, more bandwidth via aggregation can still be misused; some > > types of streams will be more latency sensitive than others. Putting the > > decision making into the transport library could also be seen as black > box. > > I would suggest that we start by considering MPQUIC as a blackbox as we > did with MPTCP. This worked well and getting the multipath mechanisms > will be easy. > > > I also want to draw some parallels between uniflows and the HTTP/2 > > priority tree. The tree was a fully expressive model that allowed a > > client to hint to the server about the relationship between streams. The > > problem of actioning this signal was left up to the server. Deployment > > experience reveals that getting this well-tuned, just for a single TCP > > connection, is hard. Some implementers just never got around to fixing > > some serious and easily detectable performance problems. > > > > Presenting a bunch of uniflows to a sever and leaving it responsible for > > using them properly seems to me quite a similar problem. > > That's a policy decision and policy can be very complex. In MPTCP, we > have very limited support for policies: > - clients use a path manager to decide when they create subflows > - servers basically never create subflows (due to NATs and firewalls) > - clients and servers can use the backup bit to indicate that a subflow > should only be used if all the non-backup subflows failed or have problems > > We discussed multiple times how to exchange policies over MPTCP. It > turned out that this was very difficult given the middleboxes. In the > end, MPTCP does not support the exchange of policies and the current > deployments embed the policies on the hosts that use MPTCP with a > specific path manager. This works well enough. > > For MPQUIC, the situation could be different as there will be no direct > inteference from middleboxes that modify options. We could exchange > information such as the priority of a flow, mapping streams to flows, > rtt preference, capping flows, ... My fear is that if we open this, the > discussion could never stop and result in something similar that is too > complex to implement. I would suggest to focus initially on very simple > policies that are implemented locally (i.e. the application that uses > QUIC would control when and how to advertise addresses and when and how > to create flows, QUIC implementations could include different packet > schedulers) and discuss the possibility of exchanging this policy > information for a revision of MPQUIC. > > Defining the capability, presenting little evidence to support its applicability and punting on the problems is exactly what got HTTP/2 priorities into the pickle that it's in. Personally, I think starting on a basis of ignoring QUIC transport's core method of exchanging application data is a bad idea. Cheers, Lucas
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