From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:15:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090204.011535.183331841.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090204085907.GA19388@gondor.apana.org.au> <20090204.010146.18100191.davem@davemloft.net> <20090204091217.GA21385@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, zbr@ioremap.net, jarkao2@gmail.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, ben@zeus.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com To: w@1wt.eu Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36305 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751234AbZBDJPj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 04:15:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090204091217.GA21385@1wt.eu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Willy Tarreau Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:12:17 +0100 > And the arbitrary choice of 9k for jumbo frames was total crap too. > It's clear that no hardware designer was involved in the process. Willy, do some reasearch, this also completely wrong. Alteon effectively created jumbo MTUs in their Acenic chips since that was the first chip to ever do it. Those were hardware engineers only making those design decisions. I think this is will I will stop taking part in this part of the discussion. Every posting is full of misinformation and I've got better things to do than to refute them every 5 minutes. :-/