netdev - RE: [RFC Patch net-next] tcp: add a global sysctl to control TCP delayed ack

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:25:12 -0000
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"Thomas Graf" <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	"Cong Wang" <amwang@...hat.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"Rick Jones" <rick.jones2@...com>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: RE: [RFC Patch net-next] tcp: add a global sysctl to control TCP delayed ack

> Not that I disagree with this fundamentally but we already
> have a socket option to enable the functionality. All this
> patch does is making the same functionality available to
> users that are not able to make modification on the
> application level.

My reading of TCP_QUICKACK documentation is that it is a request
to send an ack now - rather than permanently disable delayed acks.
Having to do an extra system call after every rcv() call
is rather OTT.

Or did you mean some other socket option?

	David



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