On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:05:45PM +0300, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> > It makes. One small packet is allowed to fly, not depending on packets_out.
>
> So this mean if I do:
>
> write(100000*MSS)
> write(1)
> write(1)
>
> 2.4 can send 100000 packet with MSS large payload plus two packets with a
> payload of 1 byte even if during the two write(1) the previous packets were
> still out (not acknowledged yet). Classical nagle would send 100000 packet with
> MSS large payload plus 1 packet with a two bytes payload in the same
> scenario.
As far as I can tell, the second "write(1)" will always merge with the
first one - unless the first one has already been sent out, of course (in
which classical nagle would have done the same thing).
So I think we'd do TheRightThing(tm) regardless. But maybe I misread.
Linus
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