From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070515.163612.108807515.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070515.143207.80029051.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ak@suse.de, krkumar2@in.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com To: xma@us.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39324 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757128AbXEOXgG (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 19:36:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Shirley Ma Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:33:22 -0700 > That's interesting. So a generic LRO in interface layer will benefit > the preformance more, right? Receiving path TCP N times is more expensive > than sending, I think. If you look at some of the drivers doing LRO, the bulk of the implementation is in software, so yes :-)