netdev - Re: [PATCH] [NET 2.6.26]: Add per-connection option to set max TSO frame size

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Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:45:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com
Cc:	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com, jarkao2@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NET 2.6.26]: Add per-connection option to set max TSO
 frame size

From: PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:35:10 -0800

> This patch adds the ability for device drivers to control the size of the
> TSO frames being sent to them, per TCP connection.  By setting the
> netdevice's gso_max_size value, the socket layer will set the GSO
> frame size based on that value.  This will propogate into the TCP layer,
> and send TSO's of that size to the hardware.

Applied to net-2.6.26, thanks.

Sorry I didn't get to this sooner as I've been away in Japan most of
this month and have been only applying the most important fixes and
the most trivial feature patches.
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