Fix live-comm: merge TCP socket write-write sequence in a single write
authorJonathan Rajotte <jonathan.rajotte-julien@efficios.com>
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:07:00 +0000 (16:07 -0400)
committerJérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 20:19:21 +0000 (16:19 -0400)
commit6c5f583c3b31f5e3c240c9e4befa6b86c8b438e2
treeada124df7deecf3c59e9f5127039c373ec360210
parentbec11ce9cd8cbf36ad6d58b79d5a37f4d78d9a14
Fix live-comm: merge TCP socket write-write sequence in a single write

The live protocol implementation is often sending content
on TCP sockets in two separate writes. One to send a command header,
and the second one sending the command's payload. This was presumably
done under the assumption that it would not result in two separate
TCP packets being sent on the network (or that it would not matter).

Delayed ACK-induced delays were observed [1] on the second write of the
"write header, write payload" sequence and result in problematic
latency build-ups for live clients connected to moderately/highly
active sessions.

Fundamentaly, this problem arises due to the combination of Nagle's
algorithm and the delayed ACK mechanism which make write-write-read
sequences on TCP sockets problematic as near-constant latency is
expected when clients can keep-up with the event production rate.

In such a write-write-read sequence, the second write is held up until
the first write is acknowledged (TCP ACK). The solution implemented
by this patch bundles the writes into a single one [2].

[1] https://github.com/tbricks/wireshark-lttng-plugin
    Basic Wireshark dissector for lttng-live by Anto Smyk from Itiviti
[2] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-January/009527.html

Reported-by: Anton Smyk <anton.smyk@itiviti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Rajotte <jonathan.rajotte-julien@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
src/bin/lttng-relayd/live.c
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