ALTQ modifications proposal

[Emmanuel Nyarko <emmankoko519%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi all,

I have already spoken to a few developers about this and now want to make everyone aware.

The current state of ALTQ:
ALTQ code is very large with so maany queueing disciplines.

The state of the art per my research is Fair Queuing CoDel FQ-Codel.(i did the work in making CoDel work in netbsd).

The previous disciplines are not well maintained and adding another discipline makes it worse(maintainability).

i want to update it to FQ-CoDel and bring it in now so we use it as our primary and maybe only active queue managements.

How do i want to bring it in ?
1. Remove all the existing disciplines (openBSD has taken this step already)
2. Use fq-codel which is easy to configure with fewer parameters and proves to be very effecitve in mitigating bufferbloat
3. modularize it (so we don’t have to recompile kernel anytime one wants to use it. as opposed to the current)
4. find a way to write tests for it
5. update the docs.

Modularizing:
this will also help for easy integration into NPF.
all points of contacts to ALTQ will be changed to agree with the decision eg: in if_inittialise( when a new network device is connected) and also when detached for each network interface.


Hence, we can have a modular, and smaller quality of service codebase to use and maintain.


Emmanuel