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May 2022
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Linux Big TCP might be a game changer fo...

Hussein Nasser
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Eric Dumazet, a Linux kernel and a Google Principal software engineer pushed a new change to Linux to support a new feature in Linux called BIg TCP. How about we discuss this  resources https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/1325637-linux-5-19-networking-brings-big-improvements-with-big-tcp-purelifi-more-hardware https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20220524203159.1189780-1-kuba@kernel.org/https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2675

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