Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

[Rick Jones]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:17:36PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> > How does CORKing interact with ACK generation? In particular how it
> > might interact with (or rather possibly induce) standalone ACKs?
> 
> It doesn't change the ACK generation. If your cork'ed packets gets sent
> before the delayed ack triggers it is piggy backed, if not it is send
> individually. When the delayed ack triggers depends; Linux has dynamic
> delack based on the rtt and also a special quickack mode to speed up slow
> start.

So if I understand  all this correctly...

The difference in ACK generation would be that with nagle it is a race
between the standalone ack heuristic and the first byte of response
data, with cork, the race is between the standalone ack heuristic and
the last byte of response data and an uncork call, or the MSSth byte
whichever comes first.

If the response bytes are dribbling slowly into the socket, where slowly
is less than the bandwidth delay product of the connection, cork can
result in quite fewer packets than nagle would. It would perhaps though
have one more standalone ACK than nagle

If the response bytes are dribbling quickly into the socket, where
quickly is greater than the bandwidth delay product of the connection,
cork will produce one less packet than nagle.

If the response bytes go into the socket together, cork and nagle will
produce the same number of packets.

rick jones
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