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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:25:33 -0700
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    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.