[Bloat] [Bug 1436945] Re: devel: consider fq_codel as the default qdisc for networking

[Jonathan Morton]

> On 5 Jun, 2018, at 6:10 pm, Jonathan Foulkes <jf at jonathanfoulkes.com> wrote:
> 
> Jonathan, in the past the recommendation was for NOECN on egress if capacity <4Mbps. Is that still the case in light of this?

I would always use ECN, no exceptions - unless the sender is using a TCP congestion control algorithm that doesn't support it (eg. BBR currently).  That's true for both fq_codel and Cake.

With ECN, codel's action doesn't drop packets, only resizes the congestion window.

 - Jonathan Morton