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Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits
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From: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:35:13 -0700

>       I would think it might be better to implement dequeueN in
> interface xmit which will benefit multiple streams as well not just
> for large packet.

I think it is beneficial to have both, each of them helps with
different aspects of packet sending overhead.