Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [PATCH net-next 08/12] r8152: support TSO | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Tue, 04 Mar 2014 07:02:31 -0800 |
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On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 14:35 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> Does that mean you are splitting the 64k 'ethernet packet' from TCP > is software? I've looked at the ax88179 where the hardware can do it. > > Is there really a gain doing segmentation here if you have to do the > extra data copy?
There is no 'extra' copy.
There is _already_ a copy, so what's the deal of doing this copy in a SG enabled way ?
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