Re: [tsvwg] L4S status: #17 Interaction w/ FQ AQMs

Dave Taht <dave@taht.net> Wed, 06 November 2019 18:15 UTC

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From: Dave Taht <dave@taht.net>
To: Greg White <g.white@CableLabs.com>
Cc: Sebastian Moeller <moeller0@gmx.de>, "tsvwg@ietf.org" <tsvwg@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [tsvwg] L4S status: #17 Interaction w/ FQ AQMs
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Greg White <g.white@CableLabs.com> writes:

> Good timing __
>
> We've just wrapped up our findings on Issue 17, and have posted them here (along with some comments on Issue 16 as well):
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> https://l4s.cablelabs.com 
>  
> (Note, the ns3 repo is not public yet, but will be shortly.   We'll update that page with links within a day or two.)
>
> In summary, we reached the following conclusions:
>
> - the main result of concern was due to a bug in initializing the
> value of TCP Prague alpha, which has been fixed and demonstrated to
> resolve the latency impact that was spanning multiple seconds
>
> - the remaining short duration latency spike in the FIFO queue is seen
> in *all* congestion control variants tested, including BBRv1, NewReno,
> and Cubic, and is not specific to Prague
>
> - if the CoDel queue is upgraded to perform Immediate AQM on L4S flows, the latency spike can be largely avoided.
>
> We invite a thorough review of the work, but believe that this closes issue #17.

I'm very glad to see y'all finding bugs in the initial implementations.

>
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> Best Regards,
>
> Greg White, Tom Henderson, Olivier Tilmans
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> On 11/6/19, 12:59 AM, "Sebastian Moeller" <moeller0@gmx.de> wrote:
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>     Hi Greg,
>     
>     
>     > On Sep 11, 2019, at 19:16, Greg White <g.white@cablelabs.com> wrote:
>     > 
>     > I'm planning on doing testing as well, but it will be more than
>     > a day or two to get it done.  Rough timeframe would be 2-3 weeks
>     > from now.
>     
>     	Since I can not hide my impatience any loger, did anything come out of this yet?
>     
>     Best Regards
>     	Sebastian
>     
>     > 
>     > -Greg
>     > 
>     > On 9/11/19, 1:52 AM, "Pete Heist" <pete@heistp.net> wrote:
>     > 
>     > 
>     >> On Sep 9, 2019, at 9:01 PM, Wesley Eddy <wes@mti-systems.com> wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> Since this thread seems to have dwindled, I just wanted to
>     >> summarize that it looks to me like we have agreement that
>     >> testing as described is needed.
>     >> 
>     >> I updated the issue tracker with a comment saying as much and pointing back to this thread in the archive for reference.
>     >> 
>     >> Is anyone planning to perform this testing in a rough timeframe they might want to share?
>     > 
>     >    Hi Wesley, I’ll share results from relevant testing in the next day or two...
>     > 
>     >    Regards,
>     >    Pete
>     > 
>     > 
>     > 
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