[Bloat] [Codel] The challenge

Steinar H. Gunderson sgunderson at bigfoot.com
Wed May 9 17:08:54 PDT 2012


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 01:58:39AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> One solution is at the producer level (TCP stack of the sender in this
> case) to properly pace the transmits in MSS units given the RTT and
> cwnd, supposedly done with TCP Hybla.

FWIW, I gave Hybla a quick test (echo hybla > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_congestion_control
and then start a VLC server; Linux 3.3.4 on both sides), and it doesn't pace
for me. It happily sends packets at what appears to be line speed, even to a
host ~100ms away on a much slower line.

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