On 4/27/2016 1:16 AM, Michael Welzl wrote:
> Thinking about Toerless' general point of using more modern APIs made
> me think of the bigger picture again. For example, one cool recent
> feature in TCP APIs is the SO_SNDLOWAT socket option, which allows
> better control of the sender buffer. Not including it in an API
> document "sucks" and it IS nice to include it in a description of an
> API.

This is an interesting example. It affects how a user-level process
interacts with the protocol implementation inside the OS but has NOTHING
to do with TCP.

I'm not sure where I would put that. It clearly isn't part of the TCP
API. Nor, e.g., would be the "nice" level of the process that's feeding
data to TCP -- yet both could affect performance between two applications.

It seems like there's a gap here you could drive a truck through that
needs to be addressed. I'm not sure where, though - i.e., whether this
is part of TAPS or not.

Joe



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