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Comment by nsguy

2 years ago

The logic is really for things like Telnet sessions. IIRC that was the whole motivation.

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bobmcnamara  2 years ago

And for block writes!

The Nagler turns a series of 4KB pages over TCP into a stream of MTU sized packets, rather than a short packet aligned to the end of each page.

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