Re: GRO aggregation

On 9/12/2012 7:23 PM, Rick Jones wrote:

On 09/12/2012 07:41 AM, Shlomo Pongartz wrote:

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Hi Eric

The TSO is just a mean to create a burst of frames on the wire so the
NAPI will be able to pool as much as possible.

Is it?  If I recall correctly, TSO was in place well before all 
drivers were using NAPI.  And NAPI was being proposed independent of 
TSO. TSO is there to save CPU cycles on the transmit side.  "On the 
wire" what it sends is to be identical to what a host with greater CPU 
performance could accomplish.

rick jones

Hi Rick.

What I say is that I use TSO on the machine that transmits so I'll have  
a burst of frames on the wire for the NAPI on the receiver machine.
The best thing for my purpose is  that the HW will do the segmentation. 
And unless I'm mistaken the Intel card is capable to do so.

Shlomo.