Re: [tcpm] draft-minshall-nagle

Hi, David,

Yes - those points raised before are probably still as relevant, but the 
broader point that Jim G. raised was never considered before - why not 
just push to change the default? We've long since evolved past a world 
where we can make assumptions that a TCP stream can safely be stalled at 
an arbitrary byte boundary...

Joe

On 6/4/2014 11:07 AM, David Borman wrote:
> So, since I’m in the acknowledgement section of the draft, I did some digging to see if I could discover what I contributed.  One message I sent at the time shows the BSD/OS did implement some of these ideas.  You can find it at:
> 	http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/tcp-impl/list/archive/1498.html
>
> All the previous discussion is in the tcp-impl archives, there were two threads, starting at:
>
> 	http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/tcp-impl/list/archive/1475.html
> 	http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/tcp-impl/list/archive/1743.html
>
> It’s probably worth looking over the previous discussions before rehashing it all over again. :-)
>
> 			-David Borman
>
> On Jun 3, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Greg Minshall <minshall@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Lars, et al.,
>>
>> i had heard that the Linux kernel implemented my proposed mods to
>> Nagle's algorithm, but i haven't looked at that implementation.  i don't
>> have any memory of any similar modifications being released in, e.g.,
>> *BSD.  (i did make some mods to FreeBSD, but i don't think i ever
>> released them.)  i also don't remember why the draft didn't progress,
>> though probably i dropped the ball somewhere.  hope that helps.
>>
>> cheers, Greg
>>
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