From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: TCP performance problems - GSO/TSO, MSS, 8139cp related
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:52:16 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161111.215216.158904316779820587.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161111223307.GF1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 22:33:08 +0000
> "The new buffer management algorithm provides capabilities of Microsoft
> Large-Send offload" and as yet I haven't found anything that describes
> what this is or how it works.
For once I will give Microsoft a big shout out here.
This, and everything a Microsoft networking driver interfaces to, is
_very_ much documented in extreme detail in the Microsoft NDIS
(Network Driver Interface Specification).
Microsoft's networking driver interfaces and expectations are
documented 1,000 times better than that of Linux.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-12 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-11 21:05 TCP performance problems - GSO/TSO, MSS, 8139cp related Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-11-11 21:23 ` David Woodhouse
2016-11-11 22:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-11-12 2:52 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-11-11 22:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-11-14 9:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-11-14 16:25 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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