22 Apr
2005
22 Apr
'05
7:27 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 19:30 -0700, Jeff Garland wrote:
I notice we don't have a buffer concept in any of our net/socket writeups on the wiki. I think that's a big omission.
[snip] Iain Hanson <Iain.Hanson <at> videonetworks.com> writes:
A buffer concept is absolutely essential for TCP.
Agreed that it is essential for TCP.
Without it you will run into delays with Nagle, delayed ack and slow start all combine-ing. Yuk!
What are you guys aiming at? Do you mean that boost network / socket stream lib should handle TCP buffers in our user space code? A buffer may be needed for other reasons, but "delays with Nagle, delayed ack and slow start all combine-ing" and related problems are handled by the TCP implementation. Sam