[Bloat] one benefit of turning off shaping + fq_codel

David Lang david at lang.hm
Tue Dec 4 19:25:02 EST 2018


On Sat, 24 Nov 2018, Pete Heist wrote:

>> But outbound is not the problem for us from a heat generation standpoint…
>
> Actually, why is inbound shaping that much harder on the CPU than outbound?

Because you don't control the flow directly, you are trying to control the 
remote sender indirectly by delaying acks and dropping packets to trick the 
sending stack into slowing down.

David Lang


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