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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: introduce tcp_try_coalesce
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:29:29 +0200
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On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 04:13 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> This never happens on connections where performance matters : skb head
> can only contains one full mss segment.

By the way, top end hardware uses fragged skbs.

Incidentally this gives better splice() performance (avoids copy of skb
head to pages)