Re: [SLUG] Re: Nagle - more on the saga

[James Morris]

On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Scott Howard wrote:

> TCP_CORK is yet another example of Linux bloat.

No, quite the opposite.

The purpose of TCP_CORK is so that applications using sendfile() don't
get hammered by Nagle, which would otherwise need to be handled by 
bloating the sendfile() implementation with header parameters.


- James
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