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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Cc: ak@suse.de, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	krkumar2@in.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:25:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada8xbppynm.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFF5654BB8.74EC8DCB-ON872572DC.00752079-882572DC.00756B23@us.ibm.com> (Shirley Ma's message of "Tue, 15 May 2007 14:22:57 -0700")

    Shirley>       I just wonder without TSO support in HW, how much
    Shirley> benefit we can get by pushing GSO from interface layer to
    Shirley> device layer besides we can do multiple packets in IPoIB.

The entire benefit comes from having multiple packets to queue in one
call to the xmit method.

 - R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-15 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <OF0CAD6D87.DBE62968-ON872572DC.0073646A-882572DC.0073BEC2@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 21:17 ` [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits Roland Dreier
     [not found]   ` <OFF5654BB8.74EC8DCB-ON872572DC.00752079-882572DC.00756B23@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 21:25     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
     [not found]       ` <OF21D475A2.5E5C88DE-ON872572DC.00763DE4-882572DC.00768A7E@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 21:38         ` David Miller
2007-05-15 21:32     ` David Miller
2007-05-15 22:17       ` [WIP] [PATCH] WAS " jamal
2007-05-15 22:48         ` jamal
2007-05-16  0:50           ` jamal
2007-05-16 22:12         ` Sridhar Samudrala
2007-05-16 22:52           ` jamal
2007-05-17  3:25             ` jamal
2007-05-18 12:07               ` jamal
2007-05-17  4:03           ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-16 21:44             ` Sridhar Samudrala
2007-05-17  5:01               ` Krishna Kumar2
     [not found]       ` <OF6757F56D.EE5984FD-ON872572DC.0081026C-882572DC.00814B8F@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 23:36         ` David Miller
2007-05-21  7:56       ` Herbert Xu
     [not found]         ` <OF9ABCD08D.2CD1B193-ON872572E3.007A6FC1-882572E3.007ACE1A@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-22 22:36           ` David Miller
     [not found]             ` <OFCF3EB7F8.9740C0C7-ON872572E3.007DADF6-882572E3.007E0E7B@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-22 23:04               ` David Miller
2007-05-22 23:12             ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-11  7:14 Krishna Kumar2
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-10 14:53 Krishna Kumar
2007-05-10 15:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-10 15:22   ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-10 15:48     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-10 16:08       ` jamal
2007-05-10 17:19     ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 18:07       ` Sridhar Samudrala
2007-05-10 19:43         ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 20:11           ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:14             ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 20:15               ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:15             ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 20:21               ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:25                 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11  5:22             ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 11:27               ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:37           ` David Miller
2007-05-10 20:40             ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 20:57               ` David Miller
2007-05-11  6:07                 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11  5:21             ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11  5:20           ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11  5:35             ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11  5:43               ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11  5:57                 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11  6:06                   ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11  6:29                     ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11  6:52                       ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-10 18:13       ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-05-10 18:20         ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 18:32           ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-05-10 18:40             ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 18:59             ` Ian McDonald
2007-05-10 19:21               ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-05-10 19:26                 ` Ian McDonald
2007-05-10 20:32                 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 20:49                   ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 21:02                     ` David Miller
2007-05-10 21:14                       ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11  2:28                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-11  5:01                           ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11  5:04               ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11  9:01                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11  9:18                   ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11  9:32                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11  9:52                       ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11  9:56                         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 11:30                           ` jamal
2007-05-11 11:53                             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 12:15                               ` jamal
2007-05-10 21:27       ` David Stevens
2007-05-10 21:40         ` David Miller
2007-05-10 21:50           ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 22:06             ` David Miller
2007-05-11  9:46               ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-10 21:41         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-10 22:09           ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 21:45         ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 21:53           ` David Stevens
2007-05-10 20:21 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-11  7:30   ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 11:21     ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-11  9:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-11  8:32   ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11  9:37     ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-11  8:50       ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 11:16       ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-13  6:00         ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-15 16:25           ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-15 20:18             ` David Miller
2007-05-15 20:52               ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-15 21:48                 ` Michael Chan
2007-05-15 21:08                   ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-15 22:05                     ` Michael Chan
2007-05-15 21:28                       ` David Miller
2007-05-18  7:04                         ` Michael Chan

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