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CoDel(8) Linux CoDel(8)
CoDel - Controlled-Delay Active Queue Management algorithm
tc qdisc ... codel [ limit PACKETS ] [ target TIME ] [ interval TIME
] [ ecn | noecn ]
CoDel (pronounced "coddle") is an adaptive "no-knobs" active queue
management algorithm (AQM) scheme that was developed to address the
shortcomings of RED and its variants. It was developed with the
following goals in mind:
o It should be parameterless.
o It should keep delays low while permitting bursts of traffic.
o It should control delay.
o It should adapt dynamically to changing link rates with no impact
on utilization.
o It should be simple and efficient and should scale from simple to
complex routers.
CoDel comes with three major innovations. Instead of using queue size
or queue average, it uses the local minimum queue as a measure of the
standing/persistent queue. Second, it uses a single state-tracking
variable of the minimum delay to see where it is relative to the
standing queue delay. Third, instead of measuring queue size in bytes
or packets, it is measured in packet-sojourn time in the queue.
CoDel measures the minimum local queue delay (i.e. standing queue
delay) and compares it to the value of the given acceptable queue
delay target. As long as the minimum queue delay is less than target
or the buffer contains fewer than MTU worth of bytes, packets are not
dropped. Codel enters a dropping mode when the minimum queue delay
has exceeded target for a time greater than interval. In this mode,
packets are dropped at different drop times which is set by a control
law. The control law ensures that the packet drops cause a linear
change in the throughput. Once the minimum delay goes below target,
packets are no longer dropped.
Additional details can be found in the paper cited below.
limit
hard limit on the real queue size. When this limit is reached,
incoming packets are dropped. If the value is lowered, packets are
dropped so that the new limit is met. Default is 1000 packets.
target
is the acceptable minimum standing/persistent queue delay. This
minimum delay is identified by tracking the local minimum queue delay
that packets experience. Default and recommended value is 5ms.
interval
is used to ensure that the measured minimum delay does not become too
stale. The minimum delay must be experienced in the last epoch of
length interval. It should be set on the order of the worst-case RTT
through the bottleneck to give endpoints sufficient time to react.
Default value is 100ms.
ecn | noecn
can be used to mark packets instead of dropping them. If ecn has been
enabled, noecn can be used to turn it off and vice-a-versa. By
default, ecn is turned off.
# tc qdisc add dev eth0 root codel
# tc -s qdisc show
qdisc codel 801b: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 limit 1000p target 5.0ms
interval 100.0ms
Sent 245801662 bytes 275853 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues
24)
backlog 0b 0p requeues 24
count 0 lastcount 0 ldelay 2us drop_next 0us
maxpacket 7306 ecn_mark 0 drop_overlimit 0
# tc qdisc add dev eth0 root codel limit 100 target 4ms interval
30ms ecn
# tc -s qdisc show
qdisc codel 801c: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 limit 100p target 4.0ms
interval 30.0ms ecn
Sent 237573074 bytes 268561 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues
5)
backlog 0b 0p requeues 5
count 0 lastcount 0 ldelay 76us drop_next 0us
maxpacket 2962 ecn_mark 0 drop_overlimit 0
tc(8), tc-red(8)
o Kathleen Nichols and Van Jacobson, "Controlling Queue Delay", ACM
Queue, http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336
CoDel was implemented by Eric Dumazet and David Taht. This manpage
was written by Vijay Subramanian. Please reports corrections to the
Linux Networking mailing list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>.
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