Re: [TSO]-Refer to "State of TCP segmentation offload to NIC in linux"

Ben Hutchings
2009-05-24T13:16:00Z

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On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 18:38 +0700, Nguyen Tuan Huy (G11) wrote:
> Dear Mr Ben Hutchings,
>
>
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> I have read your answer about question "State of TCP segmentation
> offload to NIC in linux".
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> The link is
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/5/7/1757954/thread

Please direct your queries to the netdev list, not to me personally.

> I am now writing network device driver that support TSO function. But
> when I send one packet with 64K, then TCP has divided 64K, not passed
> the whole 64K to NIC driver.
[...]

I think you won't see 64K packets for a TCP connection that was just
opened, due to the slow start algorithm.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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