From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:57:48 -0300
> i.e. to have a TSO software implementation used only when the card > didn't supported TSO, same stuff, like you mentioned above, for LRO > and LSO, probably/possibly simplifying the stack by making it assume > all net cards had these features and not doing open coded feature > "capacity queries" sprinkled all over the place. Yes, and the other benefit is one Andi Kleen has been after which is to batch packet send calls into the driver. - 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