tc-choke(8) — Linux manual page

TC(8)                             Linux                            TC(8)

NAME

       choke - choose and keep scheduler

SYNOPSIS

       tc qdisc ... choke limit packets min packets max packets avpkt
       bytes burst packets [ ecn ] [ bandwidth rate ] probability chance

DESCRIPTION

       CHOKe (CHOose and Keep for responsive flows, CHOose and Kill for
       unresponsive flows) is a classless qdisc designed to both
       identify and penalize flows that monopolize the queue. CHOKe is a
       variation of RED, and the configuration is similar to RED.

ALGORITHM

       Once the queue hits a certain average length, a random packet is
       drawn from the queue. If both the to-be-queued and the drawn
       packet belong to the same flow, both packets are dropped.
       Otherwise, if the queue length is still below the maximum length,
       the new packet has a configurable chance of being marked (which
       may mean dropped).  If the queue length exceeds max, the new
       packet will always be marked (or dropped).  If the queue length
       exceeds limit, the new packet is always dropped.

       The marking probability computation is the same as used by the
       RED qdisc.

PARAMETERS

       The parameters are the same as for RED, except that RED uses
       bytes whereas choke counts packets. See tc-red(8) for a
       description.

SOURCE

       o      R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, and K. Psounis, "CHOKe, A Stateless
              Active Queue Management Scheme for Approximating Fair
              Bandwidth Allocation", IEEE INFOCOM, 2000.

       o      A. Tang, J. Wang, S. Low, "Understanding CHOKe: Throughput
              and Spatial Characteristics", IEEE/ACM Transactions on
              Networking, 2004

SEE ALSO

       tc(8), tc-red(8)

AUTHOR

       sched_choke was contributed by Stephen Hemminger.

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