yet another option would be to setup point-to-point ethernet device (^^) via tun/tap drivers. you can have a userland program receiving data from the said device, and then use whatever options you want there. anupam On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Anupam Kapoor <anupam.kapoor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > yup, that's what i also think. is it possible that nagle+delayed-ack > is causing the perceived slow-down ? > > anupam > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> frankly it is not wise to disable nagle, and the solution i proposed >> (using netfilter extension) is really too tedious - the added overhead >> may slow down the processing, even though disabling nagle aims to >> improve latencies. but modern network card is so fast, that the >> bottleneck is not at the network card side, but more likely in the >> network gateway, or router side - so u are definitely not going to see >> improvement in spite of all the troubles. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Peter Teoh >> > > > > -- > In the beginning was the lambda, and the lambda was with Emacs, and > Emacs was the lambda. > -- In the beginning was the lambda, and the lambda was with Emacs, and Emacs was the lambda. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
