On 8/30/06, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>

quoted

Expecting any performance with one byte write's is silly.

This is absolutely true.  TCP_NODELAY can only save you when you are
sending a small amount of data "in aggregate", such as in an SSH or
telnet session, whereas in the case being shown here a large amount of
data is being sent in small chunks which will always get bad
performance.

The word performance in this list seems to always mean 'throughput'.
It seems though that there could be some knob to tweak for those of us
who don't care so much about throughput but care a great deal about
latency.

-K