> On 28 Jan 2016, at 14:51, David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner >> Sent: 27 January 2016 17:07 >> This patchset is merely a RFC for the moment. There are some >> controversial points that I'd like to discuss before actually proposing >> the patches. > > You also need to look at how a 'user' can actually get SCTP to > merge data chunks in the first place. > > With Nagle disabled (and it probably has to be since the data flow > is unlikely to be 'command-response' or 'unidirectional bulk') > it is currently almost impossible to get more than one chunk > into an ethernet frame. > > Support for MSG_MORE would help. What about adding support for the explicit EOR mode as specified in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6458#section-8.1.26 Best regards Michael > > Given the current implementation you can get almost the required > behaviour by turning nagle off and on repeatedly. > > I did wonder whether the queued data could actually be picked up > be a Heartbeat chunk that is probing a different remote address > (which would be bad news). > > David > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
