[Bloat] bufferbloat effects on throughput

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Paolo Valente <paolo.valente at unimore.it> writes:

> If there are, could anyone please point me to further reading on these
> aspects?

Bufferbloat can definitely adversely affect throughput in some cases.
Mainly because it causes throughput to oscillate: when the queue fills,
a lot of data can be dropped at once, causing throughput to drop, which
takes a while to recover. This can degrade aggregate throughput. Having
smart queueing smoothes out the traffic, so the oscillations are lower
and average throughput thus better.

The effect is most visible when you have several flows sharing a link:
when the (FIFO) queue fills, they will tend to all experience drops at
once, and so all slow down.

-Toke