[FFmpeg-cvslog] doc/protocols: Add remark about TCP_NODELAY to documentation of TCP

Thilo Borgmann git at videolan.org
Sun Jun 20 23:46:59 EEST 2021


ffmpeg | branch: master | Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at mail.de> | Fri Jun 11 21:03:20 2021 +0200| [05f9b3a0a570fcacbd38570f0860afdabc80a791] | committer: Thilo Borgmann

doc/protocols: Add remark about TCP_NODELAY to documentation of TCP

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=05f9b3a0a570fcacbd38570f0860afdabc80a791
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 doc/protocols.texi | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi
index 6b5a9cfbd5..ccdfb6e439 100644
--- a/doc/protocols.texi
+++ b/doc/protocols.texi
@@ -1728,6 +1728,8 @@ Set send buffer size, expressed bytes.
 @item tcp_nodelay=@var{1|0}
 Set TCP_NODELAY to disable Nagle's algorithm. Default value is 0.
 
+ at emph{Remark: Writing to the socket is currently not optimized to minimize system calls and reduces the efficiency / effect of TCP_NODELAY.}
+
 @item tcp_mss=@var{bytes}
 Set maximum segment size for outgoing TCP packets, expressed in bytes.
 @end table



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