[Cerowrt-devel] BBR congestion control algorithm for TCP in net-next

[Aaron Wood]

Dumb question on this:  The tcp_bbr_info struct for a socket can be
inspected at runtime through the ss utility or through a get socket opts
call, right?

-Aaron

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Maciej Soltysiak <maciej at soltysiak.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just saw this: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/671069/
>
> Interested to see how BBR would play out with things like fq_codel or cake.
>
> "loss-based congestion control is unfortunately out-dated in today's
> networks. On
> today's Internet, loss-based congestion control causes the infamous
> bufferbloat problem"
>
> So, instead of waiting for packet loss they probe and measure, e.g. when
> doing slow start (here called STARTUP) they don't speed up until packet
> loss, but slow down before reaching estimated bandwidth level.
>
> Cake and fq_codel work on all packets and aim to signal packet loss early
> to network stacks by dropping; BBR works on TCP and aims to prevent packet
> loss.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Maciej
>
>
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