RFR: 6968351: httpserver clashes with delayed TCP ACKs for low Content-Length [v2]

[Daniel Jeliński]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:06:54 GMT, robert engels <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The problem with closing a chunked stream is that it flushes both before and after the final chunk. I assume it may also cause delays.
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>> The only case when you don't need to close the exchange or the output stream is when your response contains no content.
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>> The problem with closing a chunked stream is that it flushes both before and after the final chunk. I assume it may also cause delays.
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>> The only case when you don't need to close the exchange or the output stream is when your response contains no content.
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> I don't understand this in reference to the other tests failing because they are not closing the output stream or ending the exchange. If that is incorrect behavior - because they are sending content - then those tests are invalid.
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> Still I have a fix for this I believe.

ah no, this is not related to the test failures; this is only about the original issue (small sends result in problems with delayed acks)

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18667#discussion_r1572691999