Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 06:42:28 +1100 From: grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au> To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Cc: david@catwhisker.org, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@room52.net>, Rasool Al-Saadi <ralsaadi@swin.edu.au> Subject: Re: ipfw(8) and additional scheduling algorithm specifications Message-ID: <5A357724.3020506@swin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20171215203557.GN1179@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20171215203557.GN1179@albert.catwhisker.org>
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Hi David, The related documentation update did fall between the cracks, and is curre= ntly sitting in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12507 cheers, gja On 12/16/2017 07:35, David Wolfskill wrote: > I've started looking into configuring ipfw & dummynet to see if > FQ-CoDel might improve things for my home Internet connection > (residential ADSL). > > In the process of reviewing the available documentation, I note that > ipfw(8) has: > > | ... > | The following case-insensitive parameters can be configured for a > | scheduler: > | > | type {fifo | wf2q+ | rr | qfq} > | specifies the scheduling algorithm to use. > | .... > > On the other hand, `cd /usr/src/sys/netpfil/ipfw; ls dn_{aqm,sched}*.c` > shows: > > dn_aqm_codel.c dn_sched_fq_codel.c dn_sched_qfq.c > dn_aqm_pie.c dn_sched_fq_pie.c dn_sched_rr.c > dn_sched_fifo.c dn_sched_prio.c dn_sched_wf2q.c > > > (This reflects head @r326875 and stable/11 @r326848.) > > So it seems that the list of scheduling algorithms in ipfw(8) is a bit > more restricted than the code supports. > > Is this observation correct? If so, is it intentional? > > Thanks! > > I've set Reply-To. > > Peace, > david > --=20 > David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org > The US "cannot afford" Trump as President or Roy Moore in the Senate. > > See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg <http://www.catwhisker= .org/~david/publickey.gpg> for my public key. --=20 Professor Grenville Armitage School of Software and Electrical Engineering Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology Swinburne University of Technology, Australia http://i4t.swin.edu.au/people/garmitage
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