RFC: is sch_cake fully baked?
From: Dave Taht <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-24 02:48:57
Since its incorporation in linux mainline a few years ago sch_cake has been migrating into various other niches, like mikrotik, and finding new uses in middleware outside our original home gateway intent. The feature set has been stable a long while, aside from ongoing experimentation with L4S and SCE. It's been great to leverage continued improvements in the flow dissector in particular. Our biggest end-user request has been to speed it up somehow, especially for inbound shaping. The most frequent suggestion on that front is to somehow make it multi-core, but no-one in the cake team knows how to do that. Other means of speeding it up, like using XPF and XDP, have recently appeared in things like https://github.com/rchac/LibreQoS . If anyone has thoughts for sch_cake's future, please hit https://forum.openwrt.org/t/making-cake-multicore-or-other-new-features/112623 with suggestions? Thx! -- I tried to build a better future, a few times: https://wayforward.archive.org/?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icei.org Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC