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ethernet flow controlethernet flow controlPosted Dec 16, 2011 16:57 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Plug the modem - get the problems... by quanstro Parent article: Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet (ACM Queue)
Your mileage may vary. The effect of Ethernet flow control depends on a wide range of parameters.
Ethernet flow control is effectively chaining queues across devices. Since the aggregated queue is bigger I can see how it *may in some cases* enhance TCP throughput. But it will obviously make any existing bufferbloat even worse.
Most importantly, Ethernet flow control will create HOL blocking.
Your mileage may vary.
Some old musings with Ethernet flow control: http://marc.herbert.free.fr/noq/
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