Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:17:36PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> How does CORKing interact with ACK generation? In particular how it
> might interact with (or rather possibly induce) standalone ACKs?

It doesn't change the ACK generation. If your cork'ed packets gets sent
before the delayed ack triggers it is piggy backed, if not it is send 
individually. When the delayed ack triggers depends; Linux has dynamic
delack based on the rtt and also a special quickack mode to speed up slow 
start. 

-Andi