[Bloat] Initial tests with BBR in kernel 4.9

Jonathan Morton chromatix99 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 16:00:30 EST 2017


> On 25 Jan, 2017, at 22:54, Hans-Kristian Bakke <hkbakke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 4. Do BBR _only_ work with fq pacing or could fq_codel be used as a replacement?

Without pacing, it is not BBR as specified.  Currently, only the fq qdisc implements pacing.

AFAIK, you need a working HPET for pacing to work correctly.  A low-precision timer would be a good explanation for low throughput under pacing.

 - Jonathan Morton



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