Re: [PATCH] Super TSO v3

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:32:57 +1000

> True, the Nagle algorithm itself aims to do something different
> from this function.  However, the act of turning Nagle off is
> an indication that the application wants to minimise the latency
> by sending things out ASAP.  So we should either respect that
> here by not delaying the packets to increase the TSO size, or
> we'll need a new socket option to do that for TSO.

Sure, we can check tp->nonagle to turn this deferring off.

But, I bet there are folks who want traditional Nagle turned
off, yet TSO chunking enabled.