TCP Protective Load Balancing coming to Linux Kernel 6.2

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Episode | Podcast

Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 22:37:51 GMT

<p>Google recent paper on protective load balancing in TCP attempts to improve packet drops and latency by making the host change the flow path using the IPv6 Flow label. The Linux kernels gets the PLB support in Linux 6.2 this December, let us discuss with this is. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>