From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: Matt Garman <matthew.garman@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What happened to CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF?
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 00:00:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061201000030.1d8ba600@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456F34BE.5050303@cfl.rr.com>
> No, nagle was invented specifically for telnet. Without nagle, every
No it was general purpose. It fixes some extremely bad behaviour in TCP
with congestion well beyond the "telnet" behaviour.
> Things like mouse movements should not be sent over TCP at all. UDP
> makes a much better protocol for that kind of data since if a packet is
UDP is rarely appropriate because it has no congestion control. There are
more appropriate protocols but they are rarely implemented so TCP
generally gets used.
> lost, there is no need to retransmit the same data; instead you just get
> the next position update and don't care about where the mouse was during
> the dropped packet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-28 22:05 What happened to CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF? Matt Garman
2006-11-29 20:06 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-30 17:21 ` Matt Garman
2006-11-30 19:12 ` John Stoffel
2006-11-30 19:45 ` Phillip Susi
2006-12-01 0:00 ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-01 20:42 ` Phillip Susi
2006-12-02 3:29 ` Herbert Xu
2006-12-04 15:35 ` Phillip Susi
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