[Bloat] Fwd: Initial tests with BBR in kernel 4.9

[Hans-Kristian Bakke]

Thank you.

Do I understand correctly that fq is really just hit and miss within a VM
in general then? Is there no advantage to the fair queing part even with a
low-precision clock?

On 25 January 2017 at 22:00, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > 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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