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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Matt Garman <matthew.garman@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What happened to CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:06:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456DE85F.50806@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bdd6985b0611281405j3e731e3xc7973c0365428663@mail.gmail.com>

Matt Garman wrote:
> I would like to globally disable nagling on my (2.6.9) system.  There
> are several references on the web to the CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF kernel
> config option.  However, it appears as though this no longer exists.
> 
> How might I achieve having TCP_NODELAY effectively set for all sockets
> (by default)?  Is there a new/different kernel config option, a patch,
> a sysctl or proc setting?  Or can I "fake" this behavior by, e.g.
> setting a send buffer sufficiently small?

This is a bad idea and breaks api compatibility.  Nagle is very 
important for sockets being used for things like telnet.  Other 
applications, like ftp, should already disable nagle themselves.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-29 20:06 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 [this message]
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
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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