Re: Thread implementations...

Dean Gaudet (dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org)
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:53:09 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> [new nagle...]
> which is a lot better and gives much lower latency as seen by the other
> end. I think this sounds like something web-people would like to have
> regardless of whether they use sendfile() or not.

Yeah, this would be most excellent. Right now we disable Nagle for
reasons discussed at <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann97a.html>.
But we could equally well use explicit flushing... and that would solve
the various writev/sendfile issues I've raised.

Dean

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