Re: 2.1.90 network layer again not responsive

Adrian St. John (linux@oot.co.uk)
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:53:32 +0000 (GMT)


At [Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:32:37 -0800]
"David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> wrote:

> I welcome someone to come up with a heuristic which preserves the
> current behavior for bulk data transfer, yet ACK's a bit more quickly
> for interactive sessions. ;-) Delayed ACK'ing strategies are an
> interesting problem to solve completely.

What about only using delayed ACKs when the data packets are 75% or
greater (or some other large percentage) of the maximum packet size.

Interactive sessions are unlikely to send full packets, and if they do
it would normally imply that there is more data to come soon anyway.

Adrian.

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