Most of these changes seem focused on improving small, short-lived connections. IRC and SSH are mostly long-lived and I don't think it will have a noticeable im

Most of these changes seem focused on improving small, short-lived connections. IRC and SSH are mostly long-lived and I don't think it will have a noticeable impact on them. For large bulk data transfers (like sep or ftp) the Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP (PRR) should help.