[systemd-devel] [PATCH] sysctl.d: default to fq_codel, fight bufferbloat

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:05:47PM +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Quoting from Jon Corbet's report of Stephen Hemminger's talk at Linux
> Plumbers Conference 2014 (https://lwn.net/Articles/616241/):
> 
>     [...] So Stephen encouraged everybody to run a command like:
> 
>     sysctl -w net.core.default_qdisc=fq_codel
> 
>     That will cause fq_codel to be used for all future connections (up
>     to the next reboot). Unfortunately, the default queuing discipline
>     cannot be changed, since it will certainly disturb some user's
>     workload somewhere.
> 
> So kernel developers know the best default is fq_codel, but won't
> change to it in the kernel itself. Instead they expect distros to do it.
> Let's have the recommended default in systemd.
I had the exact same thought. I'm +1.

Zbyszek