On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Julien Goodwin wrote:
On 16/09/16 18:33, Julien Goodwin via luv-main wrote:
Over and above the rate control algorithm Linux has a bunch of features that make it work much better than a to-the-spec cubic implementation (not surprising with a bunch of large content providers like $EMPLOYER submitting their fixes upstream).
Things like TCP pacing and the work from the bufferbloat folk have really improved things.
https://fasterdata.es.net/host-tuning/linux/fair-queuing-scheduler/
...and something that finally went public overnight is a new TCP rate control algorithm from some of the folk at $EMPLOYER, I for one am very much looking forward to this hitting upstream and then into a Debian kernel.
Damn, that's so obvious it must have taken a genius to think it up :) -- Tim Connors