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

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Message-ID: <ada8xbppynm.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 14:25:33 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Shirley Ma <xma@...ibm.com>
Cc:	ak@...e.de, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	krkumar2@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

    Shirley>       I just wonder without TSO support in HW, how much
    Shirley> benefit we can get by pushing GSO from interface layer to
    Shirley> device layer besides we can do multiple packets in IPoIB.

The entire benefit comes from having multiple packets to queue in one
call to the xmit method.

 - R.
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