From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Marcus Eder <meder@de.ibm.com>, Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>,
Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] eHEA: Receive SKB Aggregation
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:00:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4693BB22.5070303@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707041209.48658.ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
> This patch enables the receive side processing to aggregate TCP packets within
> the HEA device driver. It analyses the packets already received after an
> interrupt arrived and forwards these as chains of SKBs for the same TCP
> connection with modified header field. We have seen a lower CPU load and
> improved throughput for small numbers of parallel TCP connections.
> As this feature is considered as experimental it is switched off by default
> and can be activated via a module parameter.
>
> Some additional security checks have been added since the last posting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
as noted in comments, we don't need to recreate this in every driver.
do something more generic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-10 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-04 10:09 [PATCH 2/2] eHEA: Receive SKB Aggregation Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-07-10 17:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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2007-07-05 7:26 Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-07-05 8:20 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-31 11:54 [PATCH 2/2] ehea: " Thomas Klein
2007-05-31 13:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-04 12:09 ` Christoph Raisch
2007-05-31 16:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-04 12:09 ` Christoph Raisch
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