Merge branch '4.6' of scm.dev.nokia.troll.no:qt/oslo-staging-1 into 4.6-integration

* '4.6' of scm.dev.nokia.troll.no:qt/oslo-staging-1:
  QNAM HTTP: Do not use TCP_NODELAY

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/network/access/qhttpnetworkconnectionchannel.cpp b/src/network/access/qhttpnetworkconnectionchannel.cpp
index 1d8224c..82bc14f 100644
--- a/src/network/access/qhttpnetworkconnectionchannel.cpp
+++ b/src/network/access/qhttpnetworkconnectionchannel.cpp
@@ -865,7 +865,14 @@ void QHttpNetworkConnectionChannel::_q_disconnected()
 void QHttpNetworkConnectionChannel::_q_connected()
 {
     // improve performance since we get the request sent by the kernel ASAP
-    socket->setSocketOption(QAbstractSocket::LowDelayOption, 1);
+    //socket->setSocketOption(QAbstractSocket::LowDelayOption, 1);
+    // We have this commented out now. It did not have the effect we wanted. If we want to
+    // do this properly, Qt has to combine multiple HTTP requests into one buffer
+    // and send this to the kernel in one syscall and then the kernel immediately sends
+    // it as one TCP packet because of TCP_NODELAY.
+    // However, this code is currently not in Qt, so we rely on the kernel combining
+    // the requests into one TCP packet.
+
     // not sure yet if it helps, but it makes sense
     socket->setSocketOption(QAbstractSocket::KeepAliveOption, 1);