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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:51:53 -0800
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On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 18:42 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> A normal TSO packets with 16 MSS setups a ~17 DMA descriptors,
> while GSO requires 2 DMA descriptors per MSS, plus a lot of overhead
> in sk_buff allocation/deallocation.

Not mentioning fact that a 64KB packet is adding latencies, since high
prio packets have to wait the whole preceding 64KB packet has left the
host.