BBR is included since Linux 4.10. It won't show in net.ipv4.tcp_allowed_congestion_control or net.ipv4.tcp_available_congestion_control if the module tcp_bbr isn't loaded. This module is loaded automatically if activate bbr.
Check the current algorithm.
# sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bbr
Switch to bbr.
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=bbr
Permanently activate bbr.
echo "net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bbr" > /etc/sysctl.d/90-bbr.conf
Additional Information
You will find a lot of instructions which set “net.core.default_qdisc” to “fq”. The reason is, the first implementation was specifically designed for fq and you can still find references in the source code:
NOTE: BBR might be used with the fq qdisc (“man tc-fq”) with pacing enabled, otherwise TCP stack falls back to an internal pacing using one high resolution timer per TCP socket and may use more resources.
According to the official documentation, BBR doesn't require fq anymore. It also works with fq_codel for example.
This means that there is no longer a strict requirement to install the “fq” qdisc to use BBR. Any qdisc will work, though “fq” performs better for highly-loaded servers.
– TCP BBR Quick-Start: Building and Running TCP BBR on Google Compute Engine
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FQ (sometimes referred to as sch_fq because of the name of its kernel module name) is a packet scheduler which was implemented by Eric Dumazet like FQ_Codel and can be configured as queueing discipline (qdisc). FQ can be used as a drop in replacement for pfifo_fast.
The CoDel wiki says this:
For servers with tcp-heavy workloads, particularly at 10GigE speeds, for queue management, we recomend sch_fq instead of fq_codel as of linux 3.12.
Activate on the current system and replace qdisc on eth0 (not recommended).
sysctl -w net.core.default_qdisc=fq tc qdisc replace dev eth0 root fq
Persistent configuration. Reboot required to activate (recommended).
echo "net.core.default_qdisc = fq" > /etc/sysctl.d/90-fq.conf
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sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
Permanently set this configuration.
echo "net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000" > /etc/sysctl.d/90-ephemeral_ports.conf
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