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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: cake@lists.bufferbloat.net, make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net,
	WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [WireGuard] [Cake] WireGuard Queuing, Bufferbloat, Performance, Latency, and related issues
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 17:51:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ponk9if1.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw4MCXRn2zfqw3yuckD5YSsRCRUmLqC9VP88q9ODTLv5ng@mail.gmail.com> (Dave Taht's message of "Sat, 1 Oct 2016 08:40:59 -0700")

Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> writes:

> My thought - given that at least on some platforms - encrypting 1000
> packets at a time is a bad idea - would be something regulating the
> amount of data being crypted at a time, an equivalent to byte queue
> limits - BQL - BCL? byte crypto limits - to keep no more than, say,
> 1ms of data in that part of the subsystem.

Well, the dynamic queue limit stuff is reusable (in
include/linux/dynamic_queue_limits.h). The netdev BQL stuff just uses
these functions with the packet byte sizes; so adapting it to use in
wireguard should be fairly straight forward :)

> ... also pulling stuff out of order from an already encrypted thing
> leads to the same IV problems we had in mac80211.

Yeah, but who needs IVs, really? ;)

-Toke

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-01 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-30 23:21 [WireGuard] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-10-01 11:51 ` [WireGuard] [Cake] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-10-01 15:40   ` Dave Taht
2016-10-01 15:51     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2016-10-01 17:19       ` Dave Taht
2016-10-01 17:28         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-10-01 22:44           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-10-01 23:40             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-10-02  2:25               ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-10-02  2:40                 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-10-02 11:31                 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-10-05 12:39                   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-10-05 13:59                     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-10-05 14:21                       ` Jonathan Morton

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