[Removing Jeff as requested from thread :) ] Hi Dave,
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/17/2007 07:55:02 AM: > From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:14:21 -0400 > > > I still think this work - despite my vested interest - needs more > > scrutiny from a performance perspective. > > Absolutely. > > There are tertiary issues I'm personally interested in, for example > how well this stuff works when we enable software GSO on a non-TSO > capable card. > > In such a case the GSO segment should be split right before we hit the > driver and then all the sub-segments of the original GSO frame batched > in one shot down to the device driver. > > In this way you'll get a large chunk of the benefit of TSO without > explicit hardware support for the feature. > > There are several cards (some even 10GB) that will benefit immensely > from this. I have tried this on ehca which does not support TSO. I added GSO flag at the ipoib layer (and that resulted in a panic/fix that is mentioned in this patchset). I will re-run tests for this and submit results. Thanks, - KK - 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
