[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/9 Rev3] Implement batching skb API and support in IPoIB

[David Miller]

From: jamal <hadi at cyberus.ca>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:30:22 -0400

> On Tue, 2007-21-08 at 00:18 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > Using 16K buffer size really isn't going to keep the pipe full enough
> > for TSO. 
> 
> Why the comparison with TSO (or GSO for that matter)?

Because TSO does batching already, so it's a very good
"tit for tat" comparison of the new batching scheme
vs. an existing one.