From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:04:10 -0400
> Possibly a bug - but you really should turn off TSO if you are doing > huge interactive transactions (which is fair because there is a clear > demarcation). I don't see how this can matter. TSO only ever does anything if you accumulate more than one MSS worth of data. And when that does happen, all it does is take whats in the send queue and send as much as possible at once. The packets are already built in big chunks, so there is no extra work to do. The card is going to send the things back to back and as fast as in the non-TSO case as well. It doesn't change application scheduling, and it absolutely does not penalize small sends by the application unless we have a bug somewhere. So I see no reason to disable TSO for any reason other than hardware implementation deficiencies. And for the drivers I am familiar with they do make smart default TSO enabling decisions based upon how well the chip does TSO. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
