Re: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "Alexey" == kuznet  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Alexey> Hello!
>> There is no point in using it for transmit since the Linux TCP
>> stack currently doesn't support this.

Alexey> Hmm... Are you sure? Until now I thought exaclty the same with
Alexey> opposite sign. 8) Namely: there are no reasons to awake the
Alexey> feature in TCP, because no drivers support this.

Well in order to use it and really gain on it for transmit, you want
scatter/gather skbuffs, something which I really want to look at
(provided I can find the time). If you are doing the data copy anyway,
there checksum is almost free.

Jes
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