From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] eHEA: Receive SKB Aggregation Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:00:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4693BB22.5070303@garzik.org> References: <200707041209.48658.ossthema@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev , Christoph Raisch , Jan-Bernd Themann , linux-kernel , linux-ppc , Marcus Eder , Thomas Klein , Stefan Roscher To: Jan-Bernd Themann Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:60411 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759974AbXGJRAU (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:00:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200707041209.48658.ossthema@de.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 as noted in comments, we don't need to recreate this in every driver. do something more generic.