From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:31:12 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <4148C2B0.20504@pobox.com> References: <4148991B.9050200@pobox.com> <1095275660.20569.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4148A90F.80003@pobox.com> <20040915140123.14185ede.davem@davemloft.net> <20040915210818.GA22649@havoc.gtf.org> <20040915141346.5c5e5377.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, paul@clubi.ie, netdev@oss.sgi.com, leonid.grossman@s2io.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20040915141346.5c5e5377.davem@davemloft.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > Plus we have things like TSO too but that doesn't require a full Linux > instance to realize on a networking port. > Simple silicon implements this already. > I don't see how that differs from your "big MTU" ideas. WRT MTU: if the card is a buffering endpoint, rather than a passthrough, the card deals with Path MTU and fragmentation, leaving the card<->host MTU at 64K, getting nice big fat frames. Jeff