[PATCH] Added NoDelay config option and nodelay subsystem option

[Rick Jones]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > >     - turn on TCP_NODELAY for interactive sessions (Markus;
> > >    current state)
> >
> > Which goes against all logic and theory, right?  :-)

All it took was a large enough customer with an application that had
multi-byte escape sequences sent as single-byte sends and then poof,
people started setting TCP_NODELAY on things like telnet sessions.

> Yes. But the problem probably is that the old Nagle algorithm and TCP
> congestion control in general probably needs revision to really work
> in newer networks.

Hmm, an interesting comment to leave dangling out there, but probably
best for tcp-impl :)

rick jones
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