On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 01:23:04PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:16:56AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> >> On Windows platform, TCP_NODELAY can only be set when TCP is established.
> >> The current code does not create any problems while running unit tests
> >> (because connections get established immediately) but is observed while
> >> connecting to a different machine.
> >>
> >> commit 8b76839(Move setsockopt TCP_NODELAY to when TCP is connected.)
> >> made changes to call setsockopt with TCP_NODELAY after TCP is connected
> >> only in lib/stream-ssl.c. We need the same change for stream-tcp too.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com>
> >
> > I guess we will need a similar change for stream-ssl.c.
> As noted in the commit message, stream-ssl already has the change.
> stream-tcp was missing it.

Oh, I see now.  I saw that new_ssl_stream() called
setsockopt_tcp_nodelay(), with a comment that it didn't work on
Windows, and didn't fully catch on.

> > I'm not a fan of unnecessary platform-related differences.  That makes
> > me think that it might be better to set TCP_NODELAY only after
> > connecting on every platform.  After all, there is no benefit, except
> > simplicity, to setting it before one can actually send any data, and
> > we cannot get the simplicity benefit anyway.
> >
> > The one complication is that on Windows, stream-fd is only used for
> > TCP sockets, whereas on Unix it is used for Unix domain sockets and
> > TCP sockets, and one cannot set TCP_NODELAY on a non-TCP socket.  I
> > guess that means that we'd need a new parameter to new_fd_stream() to
> > indicate whether it is a TCP socket.  That's probably OK though.
> >
> > Looking at a diff, the differences between the two versions of
> > stream-fd are not large, and some of the differences are unnecessary.
> > Maybe this change is an argument toward re-unification.
> I agree. As a first step, I will send in a patch that merges
> stream-fd-windows and stream-fd-unix. Once that looks fine, I will
> resping this patch.

Great.  I'll read the other patch now.
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