Re: BQL crap and wireless

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Re: BQL crap and wireless

From: Dave Taht <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-29 23:10:47

My goal in collecting these recordings is to get TRANSCRIPTS of what
is important and what is not, so that ultimately better documentation
can be written from those than exist today.

Since the byte queuing issue is hot this week, I decided to make more
people aware that these recordings existed in the hope that more
available background information on how wireless works could be
internalized by more people.

I did note that the talk with felix was an attempt at capturing and
summarizing some bufferbloat history and only towards the end did we
start moving forward to things we planned to try, while the talk with
andrew was an attempt at doing a more technical overview of quite a
few issues.

Multiple people have found these conversations useful. Certainly I
find them useful, often reviewing them a few weeks after the fact to
find subtleties that I missed originally, or needed further reading to
really understand or write code for. The earliest conversation I had
with felix (march?) still has some useful nuggets in it about how
aggregation actually works that I hope to mine one day for better
documentation. It also had some glaring errors in it...
(mostly MINE!)

http://mirrors.bufferbloat.net/podcasts/

I would certainly like to have a (recorded!) conversation with you to
have a constructive
discussion of the issues you find important, correct, and essential,
towards making wireless networking better.

Many people are capable of doing otherwise useful work while having a
podcast running in the background that might have a few percentage
points of useful information.

By all means, don't listen if you can't split the brain cells, as I
wrote I will have transcript of that latest available and will try to
summarize and extract the best of what was discussed, after we get
some code written and some tests performed.

 There are many other folk I would like to interview in this way, as well.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Dave Taht [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~d/talks/felix/
http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~d/talks/andrew/
I had already listened to Andrew's audio, and got up to 1 hour with
your session with Felix but seriously considered that entire 1 hour a
waste of my life. I think you digressed completely and rambled on
about random crap instead of focusing on the core of the matter, I
gave up after 1 hour.

 Luis


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Re: BQL crap and wireless

From: Luis R. Rodriguez <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-29 23:15:22

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Dave Taht [off-list ref] wrote:
My goal in collecting these recordings is to get TRANSCRIPTS of what
is important and what is not, so that ultimately better documentation
can be written from those than exist today.

Since the byte queuing issue is hot this week, I decided to make more
people aware that these recordings existed in the hope that more
available background information on how wireless works could be
internalized by more people.

I did note that the talk with felix was an attempt at capturing and
summarizing some bufferbloat history and only towards the end did we
start moving forward to things we planned to try, while the talk with
andrew was an attempt at doing a more technical overview of quite a
few issues.

Multiple people have found these conversations useful. Certainly I
find them useful, often reviewing them a few weeks after the fact to
find subtleties that I missed originally, or needed further reading to
really understand or write code for. The earliest conversation I had
with felix (march?) still has some useful nuggets in it about how
aggregation actually works that I hope to mine one day for better
documentation. It also had some glaring errors in it...
(mostly MINE!)

http://mirrors.bufferbloat.net/podcasts/

I would certainly like to have a (recorded!) conversation with you to
have a constructive
discussion of the issues you find important, correct, and essential,
towards making wireless networking better.

Many people are capable of doing otherwise useful work while having a
podcast running in the background that might have a few percentage
points of useful information.

By all means, don't listen if you can't split the brain cells, as I
wrote I will have transcript of that latest available and will try to
summarize and extract the best of what was discussed, after we get
some code written and some tests performed.

 There are many other folk I would like to interview in this way, as well.
Honestly I do not have > 1 hour to review random audio on some topic
when the only meat of what I want is in 5 minutes of the > 1 hour
talk; the reason I stuck to hearing most of the talk though is I am
quite tired of the FUD around bufferbloat and also tired of the random
adhoc patches, e-mails and rants about it. My recommendation is edit
crap out and make a more condensed clip with the stuff technical folks
really care about. I'm not saying no one will find it useful, I'm
saying technical folks will puke all over it and likely not want to
even review more bufferbloat crap later. That's where I'm at least.

  Luis
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