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From: "Alejandro Riveira Fernández" <ariveira@gmail.com>
To: "Adam McLaurin" <lkml@irotas.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Loopback and Nagle's algorithm
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:42:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110412114210.65f202cc@varda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302575869.13492.1440076201@webmail.messagingengine.com>

El Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:37:49 -0400
"Adam McLaurin" <lkml@irotas.net> escribió:

 Just CCing netdev

> I understand that disabling Nagle's algorithm via TCP_NODELAY will
> generally degrade throughput. However, in my scenario (150 byte
> messages, sending as fast as possible), the actual throughput penalty
> over the network is marginal (maybe 10% at most).
> 
> However, when I disable Nagle's algorithm when connecting over loopback,
> the performance hit is *huge* - 10x reduction in throughput.
> 
> The question is, why is disabling Nagle's algorithm on loopback so much
> worse w.r.t. throughput? Is there anything I can do to reduce the
> incurred throughput penalty?
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam
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       reply	other threads:[~2011-04-12  9:42 UTC|newest]

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     [not found]     ` <alpine.LRH.2.00.1104121354010.6953@twin.jikos.cz>
2011-04-12 13:08       ` Loopback and Nagle's algorithm Eric Dumazet

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