[Bloat] Flow offload's impact on bufferbloat

Jonathan Morton chromatix99 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 19:55:49 EDT 2018


> On 11 Aug, 2018, at 2:35 am, Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just got the feeling that bypassing parts of the linux network stack would
> result in less buffering.

That buffering is not happening in the linux network stack.  It's happening in the hardware, both in your modem (upload) and in the ISP's equipment (download) because those are the parts which meet the bottleneck link.

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 - Jonathan Morton




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