Thanks Julien, that looks quite interesting. I'll try to remember to look out for this in the mainstream kernels in the future.
On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 at 21:56 Julien Goodwin via luv-main < [email protected]> wrote: > On 16/09/16 18:33, Julien Goodwin via luv-main wrote: > > On 16/09/16 11:02, Toby Corkindale via luv-main wrote: > >> I noticed that Windows 10 now uses CTCP as the default TCP > >> congestion/rate control algorithm, but Linux still defaults to the old > >> Cubic algorithm. > >> > >> CTCP doesn't appear to be available on Ubuntu LTS at the moment, but > >> there's a whole host of others to choose from. > >> Has anyone here worked out which is the best one to use on typical > >> consumer internet links in Australia? > > > > 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. > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/671069/ > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main >
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