Re: Thread implementations...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 17:24:04 +0100 (BST)

> fairly fundamental to any high bandwidth). It needs to be the _default_
> heuristic, because it works reasonably without any user intervention, but
> there is nothing to say that it has to be the only choice.

Indeed. The actual kernel code already understands the "hang onto a partial
packet for a while" notion since it now becomes if(nagle || constipated_mode)

I don't see how the API works though. When does it turn off, how do I turn
it off in the middle of a send_file ?

Alan

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