On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:19 -0700, Rick Jones wrote: > > It is the reverse - GSO will segment one super-packet just before calling > > the driver so that the stack is traversed only once. In my case, I am > > trying to send out multiple skbs, possibly small packets, in one shot. > > GSO will not help for small packets. > > If there are small packets that implies small sends, which suggests that they > would be coalesced either implicitly by the Nagle algorithm or explicitly > with > TCP_CORK no?
small packets belonging to the same connection could be coalesced by TCP, but this may help the case where multiple parallel connections are sending small packets. Thanks Sridhar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
