netdev - Re: TSO trimming question

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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:02:21 -0500
From:	John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: TSO trimming question

David Miller wrote:
> From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:40:51 +0200 (EET)
> 
>> [PATCH] [TCP]: Fix TSO deferring
>>
>> I'd say that most of what tcp_tso_should_defer had in between
>> there was dead code because of this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
> 
> Yikes!!!!!
> 
> John, we've been living a lie for more than a year. :-/
> 
> On the bright side this explains a lot of small TSO frames I've been
> seeing in traces over the past year but never got a chance to
> investigate.

Ouch.  This fix may improve some benchmarks.

Re-checking this function was on my list of things to do because I had 
also noticed some TSO frames that seemed a bit small.  This clearly 
explains it.

   -John
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