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

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Message-Id: <20070515.163612.108807515.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 16:36:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xma@...ibm.com
Cc:	ak@...e.de, krkumar2@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org, rdreier@...co.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

From: Shirley Ma <xma@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:33:22 -0700

>       That's interesting. So a generic LRO in interface layer will benefit
> the preformance more, right? Receiving path TCP N times is more expensive
> than sending, I think.

If you look at some of the drivers doing LRO, the bulk of the
implementation is in software, so yes :-)
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