[Bloat] "BBR" TCP patches submitted to linux kernel

[Eric Dumazet]

On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 13:03 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 03:52:24AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Ok, you could try 12 MB instead of 8MB to eventually reach line rate.
> > 
> > net/ipv4/tcp_rmem = 4096 873814 12000000
> > net/ipv4/tcp_wmem = 4096 873814 12000000
> 
> No difference, really. (I tried increasing both at the server and the
> client.)
> 
> FWIW, this is over the public Internet, including one 10 -> 1 Gbit/sec
> downconversion somewhere. I can't guarantee there's actually a full gigabit
> of bandwidth free along the path.

Yet it looks like they are few drops on this link, which is nice ;)