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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Eric Marsden <eric.marsden@risk-engineering.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: add support for TCP_NODELAY on network streams
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:37:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861pye44es.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7292e8f5-2be9-4c76-b473-882ff437ad93@risk-engineering.org> (message from Eric Marsden on Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:51:27 +0100)

> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:51:27 +0100
> From: Eric Marsden <eric.marsden@risk-engineering.org>
> 
> The attached patch adds support for the socket option TCP_NODELAY,
> to disable Nagle's algorithm. This means that network segments are
> sent as soon as possible, even when they contain little data. This
> reduces network latency on the network connection, but can lead to
> many small packets being sent.

Thanks, but please in the future send patches to the bug tracker (we
have a submit-emacs-patch command for that).

> +@item :nodelay @var{nodelay-flag}
> +If @var{nodelay-flag} is non-@code{nil}, the @code{TCP_NODELAY} option
> +is enabled on the socket. This disables the Nagle algorithm, meaning
> +that network segments are sent as soon as possible, even when they
> +contain little data. This reduces network latency on the network
> +connection, but can lead to many small packets being sent.

Our conventions are to leave two spaces between sentences.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-12-11 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-11 10:51 PATCH: add support for TCP_NODELAY on network streams Eric Marsden
2024-12-11 12:45 ` Robert Pluim
2024-12-11 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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