[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v4 for-2.6.27] IPOIB: add LRO support.

[Eli Cohen]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:34:59PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>
> For the case of small --messages-- eg of 1K, I don't see why we want to 
> aggregate more then 32 of them, is it just because this code appears in 
> other drivers?
>

We do want to aggregate as much as possible since it means that less
SKBs are passed up the networking stack. Of course we can't exceed 64K
and we're bound to a single NAPI poll session but I still think 64 is
not too large a number.