netdev - Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 13:15:15 -0700
From:	Gagan Arneja <gaagaan@...il.com>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	Gagan Arneja <gaagaan@...il.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>,
	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

jamal wrote:

> You would need to almost re-write the driver to make sure it does IO
> which is taking advantage of the batching.

Really! It's just the transmit routine. How radical can that be?

--
Gagan
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