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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] net: Add netdev interfaces recording send/compl
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:49:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322502591.26733.8.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+mtBx-VSJ6U2SyUxQt7eK9+cXFFAEQXgmhc+yWwpTX8zd6TJA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 16:32 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
> >> I was referring to the transmit routine, there for netdev_sent_queue()
> >> is always called with one packet.
> >
> > Optimism for the future? :-)
> >
> 
> Yep, I am looking forward to the day that someone figures out how to
> batch transmits in a meaningful way!
[...]

UFO/TSO do something like that.  Should we count physical or logical
packets?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-28 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-23  5:52 [PATCH v3 03/10] net: Add netdev interfaces recording send/compl Tom Herbert
2011-11-23 17:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-11-23 23:58   ` David Miller
2011-11-24  0:03     ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-11-24  0:06       ` David Miller
2011-11-24  0:32         ` Tom Herbert
2011-11-24  7:30           ` Dave Taht
2011-11-28 17:49           ` Ben Hutchings [this message]

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