Re: [lwip-users] Optimizing TCP writes

[Jonathan Larmour]

Bill Auerbach wrote:
>> You can call tcp_output directly yourself, or you can call
>> tcp_output_nagle
>> to use the Nagle algorithm, which is usually recommended for a variety of
>> reasons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle's_algorithm
> 
> Thank you.  That was a good read.  As is Nagle's follow-up about delayed
> ACKs and Nagle's algorithm not playing well together and his solution: 
> 
> http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174457&threshold=1&commentsor
> t=0&mode=thread&cid=14515105
> 
> Does lwIP use or support this delayed ACK "improvement"?

Nope. Whether the extra code complexity (=> size increase) will mean it
ever happens I'm not sure.

Jifl
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