netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Basic deferred TX queue flushing infrastructure.

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Message-Id: <20140901.144042.1910318544683468774.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:40:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brouer@...hat.com
Cc:	cwang@...pensource.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	therbert@...gle.com, jhs@...atatu.com, hannes@...essinduktion.org,
	edumazet@...gle.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Basic deferred TX queue flushing infrastructure.

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:40:32 +0200

> 
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:31:46 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
>> It occurs to me that perhaps the thing to do is to pass sk_buff ** to
>> dev_hard_start_xmit().
> 
> Is this to send an array of skb's to dev_hard_start_xmit()?

It's one possible mechanism.

I have a patch set that rearchitects the send path here which I'll
post in a little bit, which takes a slightly different approach
based upon suggestions by Eric Dumazet and Tom Herbert.
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