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DualPI2 provides L4S-type low latency & loss to traffic that uses a
scalable congestion controller (e.g. TCP-Prague, DCTCP) without
degrading the performance of 'classic' traffic (e.g. Reno,
Cubic etc.). It is to be the reference implementation of IETF RFC9332
DualQ Coupled AQM (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9332).
Note that creating two independent queues cannot meet the goal of
DualPI2 mentioned in RFC9332: "...to preserve fairness between
ECN-capable and non-ECN-capable traffic." Further, it could even
lead to starvation of Classic traffic, which is also inconsistent
with the requirements in RFC9332: "...although priority MUST be
bounded in order not to starve Classic traffic." DualPI2 is
designed to maintain approximate per-flow fairness on L-queue and
C-queue by forming a single qdisc using the coupling factor and
scheduler between two queues.
The qdisc provides two queues called low latency and classic. It
classifies packets based on the ECN field in the IP headers. By
default it directs non-ECN and ECT(0) into the classic queue and
ECT(1) and CE into the low latency queue, as per the IETF spec.
Each queue runs its own AQM:
* The classic AQM is called PI2, which is similar to the PIE AQM but
more responsive and simpler. Classic traffic requires a decent
target queue (default 15ms for Internet deployment) to fully
utilize the link and to avoid high drop rates.
* The low latency AQM is, by default, a very shallow ECN marking
threshold (1ms) similar to that used for DCTCP.
The DualQ isolates the low queuing delay of the Low Latency queue
from the larger delay of the 'Classic' queue. However, from a
bandwidth perspective, flows in either queue will share out the link
capacity as if there was just a single queue. This bandwidth pooling
effect is achieved by coupling together the drop and ECN-marking
probabilities of the two AQMs.
The PI2 AQM has two main parameters in addition to its target delay.
The integral gain factor alpha is used to slowly correct any persistent
standing queue error from the target delay, while the proportional gain
factor beta is used to quickly compensate for queue changes (growth or
shrinkage). Either alpha and beta are given as a parameter, or they can
be calculated by tc from alternative typical and maximum RTT parameters.
Internally, the output of a linear Proportional Integral (PI)
controller is used for both queues. This output is squared to
calculate the drop or ECN-marking probability of the classic queue.
This counterbalances the square-root rate equation of Reno/Cubic,
which is the trick that balances flow rates across the queues. For
the ECN-marking probability of the low latency queue, the output of
the base AQM is multiplied by a coupling factor. This determines the
balance between the flow rates in each queue. The default setting
makes the flow rates roughly equal, which should be generally
applicable.
If DUALPI2 AQM has detected overload (due to excessive non-responsive
traffic in either queue), it will switch to signaling congestion
solely using drop, irrespective of the ECN field. Alternatively, it
can be configured to limit the drop probability and let the queue
grow and eventually overflow (like tail-drop).
GSO splitting in DUALPI2 is configurable from userspace while the
default behavior is to split gso. When running DUALPI2 at unshaped
10gigE with 4 download streams test, splitting gso apart results in
halving the latency with no loss in throughput:
Summary of tcp_4down run 'no_split_gso':
avg median # data pts
Ping (ms) ICMP : 0.53 0.30 ms 350
TCP download avg : 2326.86 N/A Mbits/s 350
TCP download sum : 9307.42 N/A Mbits/s 350
TCP download::1 : 2672.99 2568.73 Mbits/s 350
TCP download::2 : 2586.96 2570.51 Mbits/s 350
TCP download::3 : 1786.26 1798.82 Mbits/s 350
TCP download::4 : 2261.21 2309.49 Mbits/s 350
Summart of tcp_4down run 'split_gso':
avg median # data pts
Ping (ms) ICMP : 0.22 0.23 ms 350
TCP download avg : 2335.02 N/A Mbits/s 350
TCP download sum : 9340.09 N/A Mbits/s 350
TCP download::1 : 2335.30 2334.22 Mbits/s 350
TCP download::2 : 2334.72 2334.20 Mbits/s 350
TCP download::3 : 2335.28 2334.58 Mbits/s 350
TCP download::4 : 2334.79 2334.39 Mbits/s 350
A similar result is observed when running DUALPI2 at unshaped 1gigE
with 1 download stream test:
Summary of tcp_1down run 'no_split_gso':
avg median # data pts
Ping (ms) ICMP : 1.13 1.25 ms 350
TCP download : 941.41 941.46 Mbits/s 350
Summart of tcp_1down run 'split_gso':
avg median # data pts
Ping (ms) ICMP : 0.51 0.55 ms 350
TCP download : 941.41 941.45 Mbits/s 350
Additional details can be found in the draft:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9332
Signed-off-by: Koen De Schepper <koen.de_schepper@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Co-developed-by: Olga Albisser <olga@albisser.org>
Signed-off-by: Olga Albisser <olga@albisser.org>
Co-developed-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Co-developed-by: Henrik Steen <henrist@henrist.net>
Signed-off-by: Henrik Steen <henrist@henrist.net>
Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Briscoe <research@bobbriscoe.net>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250722095915.24485-4-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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The configuration and statistics dump of the DualPI2 Qdisc provides
information related to both queues, such as packet numbers and queuing
delays in the L-queue and C-queue, as well as general information such as
probability value, WRR credits, memory usage, packet marking counters, max
queue size, etc.
The following patch includes enqueue/dequeue for DualPI2.
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250722095915.24485-3-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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