[WireGuard] Major Queueing Algorithm Simplification

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Fri Nov 4 17:36:18 CET 2016


On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> But really, instead of guessing why not measure?
>
> Simply run a `flent tcp_4up <hostname>` through the tunnel (requires a
> netperf server instance running on <hostname>) and look at the latency
> graph. The TCP flows will start five seconds after the ping flow; this
> shouldn't cause the ping RTT to rise by more than max ~10ms. And of
> course, trying this on a machine that does *not* have a gazillion
> megafast cores as well is important :)
>
> There's an Ubuntu PPA to get Flent, or you can just `pip install flent`.
> See https://flent.org/intro.html#installing-flent

I maintain the Gentoo package for Flent, actually. I'm doing some
benchmarks now...


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