On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:

Le vendredi 28 octobre 2011 à 02:07 +0300, Daniel Baluta a écrit :

quoted

RFC2581 ($4.2) specifies when an ACK should be generated as follows:

" .. an ACK SHOULD be generated for at least every second
  full-sized segment, and MUST be generated within 500 ms
  of the arrival of the first unacknowledged packet.
"

We export the number of segments and the timeout limits
specified above, so that a user can tune them according
to its needs.

Well, this requires user has a machine exclusive use :)

So, this means that setting parameters system wide
isn't an option?

On Windows there is a global setting TcpAckFrequency [1],
which is similar with our tcp_delack_{min,max}.

On Solaris there is a global option tcp_deferred_acks_max [2],
which is similar with our tcp_delack_segs.

Thanks for your comments, I will post an updated patch asap.

Daniel.

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328890
[2] http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html