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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.

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