switch congestion control back to BBRv1 from CUBIC

BBRv1 provides much better throughput in many cases and is particularly
useful for our update servers. The fairness issues based on round trip
time are not a major issue for us. The fairness issues for competing
with traditional loss-based congestion control are relevant to us but it
seems to benefit it more than it hurts us. BBRv3 will fix most of this
while preserving nearly all the benefits and will likely be shipped as a
replacement for BBRv1 in the Linux kernel rather than another option.

The reason we rolled it back last time was seeing cases of the initial
bandwidth estimate being overly low combined with a very bad interaction
with synproxy causing low bandwidth initially. We've partially addressed
the synproxy issue by raising the synproxy threshold based on conntrack
table size which we're now fully scaling based on available memory. If
we decide this is still a significant issue, we can limit using BBRv1 to
our update servers where it has massive benefits and the least downside
due to initial bandwidth not being as important. BBRv3 will help with
this by probing Round Trip Time every 5 seconds instead of 10 seconds
but still has similar issues.
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Micay 2025-06-30 14:07:09 -04:00
parent dfa2f48ae1
commit 45b8e80e31

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@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ net.ipv6.conf.*.accept_redirects = 0
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 0
net.ipv4.conf.*.rp_filter = 0
# use BBR and disable ECN since BBRv1 doesn't support it
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bbr
net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_shrink_window = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_notsent_lowat = 131072