Re: the future of ALTQ

[Dave Huang <khym%azeotrope.org@localhost>]

On Feb 18, 2014, at 9:28, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> Is anyone else using ALTQ?  I am wondering if there are alternatives, or
> if fixing altq to be more locking/mp-aware is a good plan (as part of
> the general effort in the network stack).

I use it, although I've never been sure that it's worked properly. I'm 
trying to prioritize TCP ACKs and VOIP traffic, but pfctl -vs queue 
doesn't show packets going to the queues I expect. However, empirical 
tests seem to show that it's helping (e.g., on my ADSL connection, 
saturating the upstream bandwidth doesn't significantly affect 
downstream bandwidth).
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