'Does TCP_NODELAY disable auto corking?

Does setting TCP_NODELAY prevent auto corking? Is there a way to turn off auto corking on a per socket basis?

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Solution 1:[1]

Taking a look at this Stack Overflow post on what autocorking is, we can see:

...so it would still work even when TCP_NODELAY option is set.

Other than that, we have this conversation which states:

Lets wait the end of 3.14 dev cycle before considering this patch.

So, to answer your original question, setting TCP_NODELAY does not prevent autocorking. As of turning off autocorking, this post on Unix might help you.

Short answer: tcp_nagle_check() in net_ipv4_tcp_output.c

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