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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:14:25 -0700
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jamal wrote:
> The discussion seems to have steered into protocol coalescing.
> My tests for example were related to forwarding and not specific
> to any protocol.

Just the natural tendency of end-system types to think of end-system things 
rather than router things.

rick jones