QoS (Quality of Service) Support

• Version: 3.1, 2.7

• Developer: Marin Stavrev

• More: http://zph.bratcheda.org/

Details

Zero Penalty Hit created a patch to set QoS markers on outgoing traffic to clients.

• Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark local hits.
• Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark peer hits.
• Allows you to selectively set only sibling or parent requests

• Allows any HTTP response to clients will have the TOS value of the response coming from the remote server masked. For this to work correctly, you will need to patch your linux kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch. The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org

• Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the remote server, before copying the value to the TOS send towards clients.

Squid Configuration

Squid 3.2 and later

The configuration options for Squid-3.2 are extended to support both TOS and Linux MARK tagging.

• The 0xNN values here are set according to your system policy. They may differ from those shown.

Responses found as a HIT in the local cache

qos_flows tos local-hit=0x30

qos_flows mark local-hit=0x30

Responses found as a HIT on sibling peer.

qos_flows tos sibling-hit=0x31

qos_flows mark sibling-hit=0x31

Responses found as a HIT on parent peer.

qos_flows tos parent-hit=0x32

qos_flows mark parent-hit=0x32

Responses found as a MISS may have existing values.

• preserve-miss locates and passes the same settings received by Squid from the remote server, on the client connection. On non-Linux or unpatched Linux the miss TOS is always zero. The capability may be disabled if desired.

  • TOS requires Linux with kernel patching.

qos_flows tos disable-preserve-miss

qos_flows mark disable-preserve-miss

• miss sets a new value on MISS responses to the client from Squid. An optionanl mask can be applied to limit which bits are set to the new value. Unmasked bits are preserved from the value received from server. TOS requires Linux with kernel patching to reserve and mask the existing value from server.

On non-Linux or unpatched Linux the miss TOS is always zero. The capability may be disabled if desired.

qos_flows tos miss=0x0A/0x0F

qos_flows mark miss=0x0A/0x0F

Squid 3.1

The configuration options for 2.7 and 3.1 are based on different ZPH patches. The 3.1 configuration provides clear TOS settings for each outbound response type.

• The 0xNN values here are set according to your system policy. They may differ from those shown.

Responses found as a HIT in the local cache

qos_flows local-hit=0x30

Responses found as a HIT on sibling peer.

qos_flows sibling-hit=0x31

Responses found as a HIT on parent peer.

qos_flows parent-hit=0x32

preserve-miss locates and passes the same TOS settings received by Squid from the remote server, on the client connection.

• requires Linux with kernel patching.

On non-Linux or unpatched Linux the miss TOS is always zero. The capability may be disabled if desired.

qos_flows disable-preserve-miss

Squid 2.7

The configuration options for 2.7 and 3.1 are based on different ZPH patches. The 2.7 patch does not have pass-thru capability. It does however include support for some legacy QoS protocols besides ToS.

• The 0xNN values here are set according to your system policy. They may differ from those shown.

Responses found as a HIT in the local cache

zph_mode tos
zph_local 0x30

Responses found as a HIT on peer (sibling only) caches.

zph_mode tos
zph_sibling 0x31

Responses found as a HIT on peer (parent only) caches.

zph_mode tos
zph_parent 0x32

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