The Flow Queue CoDel Packet Scheduler and Active Queue Management Algorithm
RFC 8290
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) T. Hoeiland-Joergensen
Request for Comments: 8290 Karlstad University
Category: Experimental P. McKenney
ISSN: 2070-1721 IBM Linux Technology Center
D. Taht
Teklibre
J. Gettys
E. Dumazet
Google, Inc.
January 2018
The Flow Queue CoDel Packet Scheduler and
Active Queue Management Algorithm
Abstract
This memo presents the FQ-CoDel hybrid packet scheduler and Active
Queue Management (AQM) algorithm, a powerful tool for fighting
bufferbloat and reducing latency.
FQ-CoDel mixes packets from multiple flows and reduces the impact of
head-of-line blocking from bursty traffic. It provides isolation for
low-rate traffic such as DNS, web, and videoconferencing traffic. It
improves utilisation across the networking fabric, especially for
bidirectional traffic, by keeping queue lengths short, and it can be
implemented in a memory- and CPU-efficient fashion across a wide
range of hardware.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for examination, experimental implementation, and
evaluation.
This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF
community. It has received public review and has been approved for
publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not
all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of
Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8290.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Terminology and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3. Informal Summary of FQ-CoDel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. CoDel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Flow Queueing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. The FQ-CoDel Scheduler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1. Enqueue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1.1. Alternative Classification Schemes . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. Dequeue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Implementation Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.1. Data Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.2. Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2.1. Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2.2. Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2.3. Packet Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2.4. Quantum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2.5. Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2.6. Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) . . . . . . . 14
5.2.7. CE Threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.3. Probability of Hash Collisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.4. Memory Overhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.5. Per-Packet Timestamping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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