The congestion window is unlikely to be even divisible by the size
of a packet, so when the congestion window is almost full, there is
often just a few bytes remaining in it. Before this change, a small
packet was created to fill the remaining bytes in the congestion window,
to make it really full.
Small packets don't add much. The cost of sending a small packet is
often the same as sending a large one, and you usually get lower
throughput sending many small packets compared to few larger ones.'
This mode will only be enabled when the congestion window is large, so
if the congestion window is small - e.g. due to poor network conditions,
it will allow packets to become fragmented into small parts, in order to
fully utilize the congestion window.
Bug: webrtc:12943
Change-Id: I8522459174bc72df569edd57f5cc4a494a4b93a8
Reviewed-on: https://webrtc-review.googlesource.com/c/src/+/228526
Commit-Queue: Victor Boivie <boivie@webrtc.org>
Reviewed-by: Harald Alvestrand <hta@webrtc.org>
Reviewed-by: Florent Castelli <orphis@webrtc.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#34778}
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