Yes, it hold up any packet that is less than the size of the header, and 
forwards multiple.




----- Original Message -----
From: Brock Palen [[email protected]]
Sent: 08/03/2009 08:35 PM AST
To: Mag Gam <[email protected]>
Cc: lustre-discuss discuss <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre featured on podcast (HT: Andreas Dilger)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm

Looks like you intentionally hold up data to try to make fatter  
payloads in packets so they are not 99% header/crc data.  Sounds like  
a way to make latency bad.

Brock Palen
www.umich.edu/~brockp
Center for Advanced Computing
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On Aug 3, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Mag Gam wrote:

> Very nice.
>
> 15:54, what is "Nagle" ?
>
> He didn't say anything about SNS, but changeLogs seems very promising!
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Brock Palen<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks to Andreas for taking an hour out to talk with Jeff Squyres  
>> and
>> myself (Brock Palen) about the Lustre cluster filesystem on our
>> podcast www.rce-cast.com,
>>
>> You can find the whole show at:
>> http://www.rce-cast.com/index.php/Podcast/rce-14-lustre-cluster-filesystem.html
>>
>> Thanks again!
>> If any of you have requests of topics you would like to hear please
>> let me know!
>>
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