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I don’t get it. Most of the examples if not all can just be set to a constant. You should not be auto-tuning the congestion control algorithm selection at runtime.



From the blog post here: https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-bpftune

"A lot of lore accumulates around these tunables, and to help clarify why we developed bpftune, we will use a straw-man version of the approach taken with tunables:

“find the set of magic numbers that will work for the system forever”

This is obviously a caricature of how administrators approach the problem, but it does highlight a critical implicit assumption - that systems are static."




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