From: "Ravinandan Arakali" <redacted>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:18:55 -0700

Since there seems to be pros and cons for both the approaches, we are
planning
to submit two separate patches(one for each approach). These patches also
include the ethtool changes. In terms of performance, we did not observe any
diff between the two approaches although the first approach(using SG)
minimizes
coalescing in driver.

Ok.  I think minimizing driver specific work is probably going
to make the SG approach more desirable, but we'll see.

Also, some changes will be required in the ethtool user-level utility.
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to submit patches for the ethtool
utility as well..

Making sure jgarzik@pobox.com gets the patch is usually the way
to go wrt. ethtool submissions.