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Re:Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 ... by JackMinello on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @02:15AM (#17455548)
On newer kernel is no longer required to install the "fq" qdisc to use BBR
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Re:Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 ... by wtallis on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @02:22AM (#17455578)
More specifically, it appears to require this commit[1] that's in kernels 4.13 and later.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-ne...

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Re:Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 ... by aorth on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @03:41AM (#17455805)
Interesting! From a related discussion in 2017 on the bbr-dev mailing list:

  BBR will run well with fq_codel only after linux-4.13 (not yet released)

  Before linux-4.13, BBR _needs_  fq packet scheduler.

  fq is not fq_codel.
See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bbr-dev/4jL4ropdOV8
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