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 20:18:51 +0000 (16:18 -0400)
commit7791c08d9a128032b1c79f28db26666e986502a4
treef4ae3a1eae9776188c210bd67dc1f92f9ffbaf9f
parent91e8abc728370269a7b02ed5116e70ed488dcf60
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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