netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

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Date:	Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:23:26 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, zbr@...emap.net, w@....eu,
	dada1@...mosbay.com, ben@...s.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:10:34AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> 
> Looks fine, except: you mentioned dumb NICs, which would need this
> page space on receive, anyway. BTW, don't they need this on transmit
> again?

A lot more NICs support SG on tx than rx.

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