netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

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Message-ID: <20081217104711.GA17504@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:47:11 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>
Cc:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:45:13AM +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
>
> You're talking about the urgent-data case, right? Yes, for urgent data,
> correctly implemented GSO will no doubt be faster than splitting the
> skb. But GSO will also get (a bit) slower for the non-urgent-data case,
> where the slowdown is not compensated by anything. Or did I miss
> something obvious?

Unless you've got numbers I'm not buying this :)

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