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

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Message-Id: <20070515.131840.52167955.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 13:18:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rdreier@...co.com
Cc:	ak@...e.de, krkumar2@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:25:28 -0700

> I'll have to think about implementing that for IPoIB.  One issue I see
> is if I have, say, 4 free entries in my send queue and skb_gso_segment()
> gives me back 5 packets to send.  It's not clear I can recover at that
> point -- I guess I have to check against gso_segs in the xmit routine
> before actually doing the segmentation.

I'd suggest adding a fudge factor to your free TX space, which
is advisable anyways so that when TX is woken up, more of
the transfer from queue to device can happen in a batch-like
fashion.
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