From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:57:48 -0300

> i.e. to have a TSO software implementation used only when the card
> didn't supported TSO, same stuff, like you mentioned above, for LRO
> and LSO, probably/possibly simplifying the stack by making it assume
> all net cards had these features and not doing open coded feature
> "capacity queries" sprinkled all over the place.

Yes, and the other benefit is one Andi Kleen has been after which
is to batch packet send calls into the driver.
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