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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 04:16:44 -0700
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 > I wasn't talking about sending.
 > 
 > But there actually is :- TSO/GSO.

As I said before, getting multiple packets in one call to xmit would
be nice for amortizing per-xmit overhead in IPoIB.  So it would be
nice if the cases where the stack does GSO ended up passing all the
segments into the driver in one go.

 - R.