Re: [lwip-users] Microblaze and lwIP

[Kieran Mansley]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 15:06 +0100, Kieran Mansley wrote:

> Unfortunately, this is just a property of TCP, rather than either lwIP
> or windows having a bug.  I think linux has some clever stuff in it to
> notice when the delayed ACK protocol would harm performance and so is
> able to turn it off in cases like this.

A colleague has pointed out that you may be able to avoid this problem,
if you're using the sockets API, by setting the TCP_NODELAY socket
option.  This won't solve the issue in all cases, but may be good enough
for your needs.

Kieran