diff -r 116544b5a04c -r e9feb65d37fa jdk/src/share/classes/sun/security/ssl/AppOutputStream.java
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/security/ssl/AppOutputStream.java	Wed Apr 11 07:26:35 2012 -0700
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/security/ssl/AppOutputStream.java	Wed Apr 11 17:12:35 2012 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1996, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1996, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -91,9 +91,20 @@
         // however they like; if we buffered here, they couldn't.
         try {
             do {
+                boolean holdRecord = false;
                 int howmuch;
                 if (isFirstRecordOfThePayload && c.needToSplitPayload()) {
                     howmuch = Math.min(0x01, r.availableDataBytes());
+                     /*
+                      * Nagle's algorithm (TCP_NODELAY) was coming into
+                      * play here when writing short (split) packets.
+                      * Signal to the OutputRecord code to internally
+                      * buffer this small packet until the next outbound
+                      * packet (of any type) is written.
+                      */
+                     if ((len != 1) && (howmuch == 1)) {
+                         holdRecord = true;
+                     }
                 } else {
                     howmuch = Math.min(len, r.availableDataBytes());
                 }
@@ -108,7 +119,7 @@
                     off += howmuch;
                     len -= howmuch;
                 }
-                c.writeRecord(r);
+                c.writeRecord(r, holdRecord);
                 c.checkWrite();
             } while (len > 0);
         } catch (Exception e) {