From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:19:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46435412.50800@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF305F038C.A48D4C37-ON652572D7.00538ECA-652572D7.00546E39@in.ibm.com>
> It is the reverse - GSO will segment one super-packet just before calling
> the driver so that the stack is traversed only once. In my case, I am
> trying to send out multiple skbs, possibly small packets, in one shot.
> GSO will not help for small packets.
If there are small packets that implies small sends, which suggests that they
would be coalesced either implicitly by the Nagle algorithm or explicitly with
TCP_CORK no?
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 14:53 [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits Krishna Kumar
2007-05-10 15:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-10 15:22 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-10 15:48 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-10 16:08 ` jamal
2007-05-10 17:19 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-05-10 18:07 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2007-05-10 19:43 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 20:11 ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:14 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 20:15 ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:15 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 20:21 ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:25 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 5:22 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 11:27 ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:37 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 20:40 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 20:57 ` David Miller
2007-05-11 6:07 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 5:21 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 5:20 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 5:35 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 5:43 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 5:57 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 6:06 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 6:29 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 6:52 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-10 18:13 ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-05-10 18:20 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 18:32 ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-05-10 18:40 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 18:59 ` Ian McDonald
2007-05-10 19:21 ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-05-10 19:26 ` Ian McDonald
2007-05-10 20:32 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 20:49 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 21:02 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 21:14 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 2:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-11 5:01 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 5:04 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 9:01 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 9:18 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 9:32 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 9:52 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 9:56 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 11:30 ` jamal
2007-05-11 11:53 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 12:15 ` jamal
2007-05-10 21:27 ` David Stevens
2007-05-10 21:40 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 21:50 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 22:06 ` David Miller
2007-05-11 9:46 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-10 21:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-10 22:09 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 21:45 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 21:53 ` David Stevens
2007-05-10 20:21 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-11 7:30 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 11:21 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-11 9:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-11 8:32 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 9:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-11 8:50 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 11:16 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-13 6:00 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-15 16:25 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-15 20:18 ` David Miller
2007-05-15 20:52 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-15 21:48 ` Michael Chan
2007-05-15 21:08 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-15 22:05 ` Michael Chan
2007-05-15 21:28 ` David Miller
2007-05-18 7:04 ` Michael Chan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-11 7:14 Krishna Kumar2
[not found] <OF0CAD6D87.DBE62968-ON872572DC.0073646A-882572DC.0073BEC2@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 21:17 ` Roland Dreier
[not found] ` <OFF5654BB8.74EC8DCB-ON872572DC.00752079-882572DC.00756B23@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 21:25 ` Roland Dreier
[not found] ` <OF21D475A2.5E5C88DE-ON872572DC.00763DE4-882572DC.00768A7E@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 21:38 ` David Miller
2007-05-15 21:32 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <OF6757F56D.EE5984FD-ON872572DC.0081026C-882572DC.00814B8F@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 23:36 ` David Miller
2007-05-21 7:56 ` Herbert Xu
[not found] ` <OF9ABCD08D.2CD1B193-ON872572E3.007A6FC1-882572E3.007ACE1A@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-22 22:36 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <OFCF3EB7F8.9740C0C7-ON872572E3.007DADF6-882572E3.007E0E7B@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-22 23:04 ` David Miller
2007-05-22 23:12 ` Herbert Xu
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