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From: Gagan Arneja <gaagaan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:15:15 -0700
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jamal wrote:

> You would need to almost re-write the driver to make sure it does IO
> which is taking advantage of the batching.

Really! It's just the transmit routine. How radical can that be?

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Gagan