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| author | Igor Slepchin <[email protected]> | 2018-09-24 22:44:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Igor Slepchin <[email protected]> | 2018-10-11 01:07:19 -0400 |
| commit | 210665e8a252faecf28ccebade999e734ab92582 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b81350cb43fd9a59ea13e34e03017f82fccbef3 /lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml | |
| parent | 3daef1a4ee8cfce90d0220be3695809ccbb8ea58 (diff) | |
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Add nopush TCP socket option
This translates to TCP_CORK on Linux and TCP_NOPUSH on
BSD.
In effect, this acts as super-Nagle: no partial TCP segments
are sent out until this option is turned off. Once turned off,
all accumulated unsent data is sent out immediately. The latter
is *not* the case on OSX, hence the implementation ignores
"nopush" on OSX to reduce confusion.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml index ed775d67eb..9fc361a234 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml @@ -1039,6 +1039,18 @@ setcap cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_dac_read_search+epi beam.smp</code> is turned on for the socket, which means that also small amounts of data are sent immediately.</p> </item> + <tag><c>{nopush, Boolean}</c>(TCP/IP sockets)</tag> + <item> + <p>This translates to <c>TCP_NOPUSH</c> on BSD and + to <c>TCP_CORK</c> on Linux.</p> + <p>If <c>Boolean == true</c>, the corresponding option + is turned on for the socket, which means that small + amounts of data are accumulated until a full MSS-worth + of data is available or this option is turned off.</p> + <p>Note that while <c>TCP_NOPUSH</c> socket option is available on OSX, its semantics + is very different (e.g., unsetting it does not cause immediate send + of accumulated data). Hence, <c>nopush</c> option is intentionally ignored on OSX.</p> + </item> <tag><c>{packet, PacketType}</c>(TCP/IP sockets)</tag> <item> <p><marker id="packet"/>Defines the type of packets to use for a socket. |