Luci-app-qos vs luci-app-sqm: handling priorities?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Continuing the discussion from Netgear R7800 exploration (IPQ8065, QCA9984):

  • In /etc/config/qos (for luci-app-qos) I would use the "classify" option to mark ssh as high priority and torrent as lowest
  • in /etc/config/sqm (for luci-app-sqm) how do I give higher priority to ssh (identified by port number) and lower to torrent downloads (identified by protocol, ideally, or by port range) ?
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Sqm tries by design to stay simple, so out of the box it does not offer any prority filtering mechanisms. That said simple.qos and edpuvially layer_cake.qos will evaluate existing dscp markings to sort packets into 3 prority tiers. If you can mark your application packets according to your wishes that will work. But please note that in ingress that will be a bit tricky as sqm's ingress side runs before iptables becomes available, so you would need to use tc.
Now, the qdiscs used by sqm try to give sparse traffic a small boost, which might be enough to make a ssh command line session cut through a background torrent traffic.
Also cake offers a per-internal-ip-address-fairness mode, if you activate that, all you need to do is to run torrents and ssh on different computers/VMs/containers with different IPs.

There is also a long Thread for people absolutely requiring detailed traffic property rules, see:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ultimate-sqm-settings-layer-cake-dscp-marks/25832/617
Bring some time, that thread is above 600 posts...

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IOW it can be done but I'd need pretty solid reasons for wanting it :slight_smile:
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

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a fwmark mode has recently been added to address this