Episode 862 transcript

FLOSS-862 Jonathan: Whew. This week I talk with Toke Hoyland Jorgenson about cake mq. That is the technology in the kernel that keeps your packets flowing the way that they're supposed to. Yes, we're talking buffer bloat and getting an update on what's new there. This is Floss Weekly, episode 862. Recorded Tuesday, January the 27th. Have your cake and eat it too. It's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and today we are talking about cake. No, not the Marie Antoinette. Let them eat cake sort of thing. No, we're talking about cues Q discipline making the internet fast and work better. Specifically, we're talking about cake mq. That's the multi queuing cake protocol. And we've got one of the experts to now I got. I got guidance on how to pronounce his name before we started, and we'll see if I actually nail it or not. Toke Hoyland Jorgensen and he is a kernel engineer at Red Hat, working on both the networking and BPF subsystems, and you wrote a PhD on Buffer Bloat. So welcome, welcome Toke to the show. It's wonderful to have you here today. Toke: Thank you. Jonathan: So you're one of the, you're actually…