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From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/13] cxgb3 - use immediate data for offload Tx
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:25:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C239EC.7000505@chelsio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C14106.4080604@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Divy Le Ray wrote:
> > From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
> >
> > Send small TX_DATA work requests as immediate data even when
> > there are fragments.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
> > ---
> >
> >  drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c |   17 +++++++++++------
> >  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> needs additional explanation.  don't just describe the new post-change
> behavior, describe why this change is needed.
>
>
It's an optimization avoiding doing multiple DMAs for small fragmented 
packets.
The driver already implements this optimization for small contiguous 
packets.

Divy

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-14 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-11  6:29 [PATCH 4/13] cxgb3 - use immediate data for offload Tx Divy Le Ray
2007-08-14  5:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-14 23:25   ` Divy Le Ray [this message]

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