On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> I'm all for TCP_CORK but it has the disavantage of two syscalls for doing the
> flush of the outgoing queue to the network. And one of those two syscalls is
> spurious. Certainly it makes perfect sense that the uncork flushes the outgoing
> queue, but I think we should have a way to flush it without exiting the cork-mode.
> I believe most software only needs to SIOCPUSH after sending the data and just
> before waiting the reply.

Sure, I agree. Something like SIOCPUSH would fit very well into the
TCP_CORK mentality.

			Linus

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