Re: The ultimate TOE design

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:46:24PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:36:18 -0400 (EDT)
John Heffner [off-list ref] wrote:

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The other (much nicer) solution to case (b) is to just USE A BIGGER MTU.
1500 bytes is ridiculously small.  Even with a 9k MTU, the benefits of TOE
or TSO are nearly vanishing.  Those who say they require high performance,
but are unwilling to buy or produce networking gear with an MTU larger
than 1500 bytes probably deserve what they get.

TSO gives a kind of virtual 64K MTU, FWIW.  But I do see your
point.

We still need to solve the same problem for RX though.

-Andi