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Commit c7268589 authored by Tuong Lien's avatar Tuong Lien Committed by David S. Miller
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tipc: fix large latency in smart Nagle streaming



Currently when a connection is in Nagle mode, we set the 'ack_required'
bit in the last sending buffer and wait for the corresponding ACK prior
to pushing more data. However, on the receiving side, the ACK is issued
only when application really  reads the whole data. Even if part of the
last buffer is received, we will not do the ACK as required. This might
cause an unnecessary delay since the receiver does not always fetch the
message as fast as the sender, resulting in a large latency in the user
message sending, which is: [one RTT + the receiver processing time].

The commit makes Nagle ACK as soon as possible i.e. when a message with
the 'ack_required' arrives in the receiving side's stack even before it
is processed or put in the socket receive queue...
This way, we can limit the streaming latency to one RTT as committed in
Nagle mode.

Acked-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f3fbc5a3
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