netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

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Message-Id: <20090204.011535.183331841.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:15:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	w@....eu
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, zbr@...emap.net, jarkao2@...il.com,
	dada1@...mosbay.com, ben@...s.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:12:17 +0100

> And the arbitrary choice of 9k for jumbo frames was total crap too.
> It's clear that no hardware designer was involved in the process.

Willy, do some reasearch, this also completely wrong.

Alteon effectively created jumbo MTUs in their Acenic chips since that
was the first chip to ever do it.  Those were hardware engineers only
making those design decisions.

I think this is will I will stop taking part in this part of the
discussion.  Every posting is full of misinformation and I've got
better things to do than to refute them every 5 minutes.  :-/
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