[PATCH] Added NoDelay config option and nodelay subsystem option

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:17:48AM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> 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.

Sigh.

> > 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 :)

:)

Let me clarify: the TCP that we were using in the old 80s, and which
we're still using, needs revision. Revisions have, in fact taken place.
But not all stacks implement, say, selective acknowledgements and all
that. Sigh.

> rick jones


Nico
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