Check out tcp_sent() callback, it is called after data was successfully
sent to remote station.

http://www.nongnu.org/lwip/2_0_0/group__tcp__raw.html#
ga1596332b93bb6249179f3b89f24bd808


Ciao
Dirk

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Dirk Ziegelmeier * d...@ziegelmeier.net * http://www.ziegelmeier.net

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:17 AM, anand arjunan <anand.ar...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using LWIP (Raw TCP mode) (in FreeRTOS) for handling http page
> requests, construct the web page and send the page to the client. I have
> set the TCP_SND_BUF as 8*TCP_MSS where TCP_MSS is 1460. There will be only
> one client / browser connecting to the system at a time.
>
> In the receive call back function, I constructed the entire web page and
> used the tcp_write () (with TCP_WRITE_FLAG_COPY ) to send the data to LWIP
> buffer. Due to memory limitations, I have to reuse a buffer size of 2.5 K
> to construct the page before writing it to LWIP using tcp_write () as the
> actual page size to be sent to client is more than 14 K. I was thinking
> that as and when I call tcp_output () the data would be
> sent instantaneously to the client. But, I got to know that tcp_Output()
> does not work in the callback function and LWIP will start sending the
> packets automatically once the control is out of the callback function.
>
> Due to this limitation I slightly modified the design. I have made the
> actual LWIP receive callback to just set another (second) callback function
> so that the actual LWIP callback would return immediately (so that
> tcp_output( ) can work). The second callback would actually construct the
> page and would be invoked by http_poll function or some other timer.
>
> Even this does not work. It still accumulates the data worth of of 8*1460
> bytes fully and sends only that much to the client. Once the buffer is
> full, tcp_sndbuf(pcb) returns zero and I cannot write anymore to it. I
> thought this would return non zero value as I am calling tcp_output ( )
> outside the LWIP calling function using a timer function.
>
> I tried disabling the nagle's algorithm using tcp_nagle_disbale( ) before
> transmitting the packets. That did not help either.
>
> I want the data to be sent to the client (without accumulating) as and
> when I call tcp_output( ) because of the limitation that I can construct
> only 2.5 K bytes of page at a time and reuse it to construct the next
> section of the page.
>
> Please help. Any help / pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> LWIP_Starter
>
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