Re: Sender-side SWS avoidance in tcp_sendmsg()

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David S. Miller wrote:
> > If the problem is win2000/xp not waking up its http client, why one
> > PSH per window?  Why not one PSH per N kilobytes or one per second?
> > (One per second would be better for web browers over dialup, wouldn't it?)
> 
> Because if the window fills up, we'll deadlock since the client
> won't drain the data and the receiver will advertize a zero
> window which we can't send into.

Ok.  It's done to prevent deadlock rather than improve Windows
performance.  Fair enough :)

> > Can you point me to a web page with more information about this bug?
> 
> It is not documented, Alexey noticed it via packet traces sent to
> him years ago.

Are the discussion or packet traces in a mail archive somewhere?

Thanks,
-- Jamie
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