On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:36:36PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > Yep, for any NIC that supports SG but not TSO then software GSO will > > > be a big win. When the NIC doesn't support SG then the win is mostly > > > offset by the need to copy the packet again.
... > SKB's from TSO are composed of discontiguous page chunks represented > by the skb_shared_info() array. These can come either from sendmsg() > user data (which the kernel fills into a per-socket data page which is > reallocated once filled), or from sendfile() page cache pages. Yes sendmsg() is the case where it's almost even whether GSO is turned on or off because GSO does an extra copy which offsets the win in reduced per-packet cost. For sendfile() it's still a win though since we have to copy it anyway and doing it in GSO avoids the per-packet cost. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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
