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Re: The ultimate TOE design

To: John Heffner <jheffner@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:46:24 -0700
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:36:18 -0400 (EDT)
John Heffner <jheffner@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The other (much nicer) solution to case (b) is to just USE A BIGGER MTU.
> 1500 bytes is ridiculously small.  Even with a 9k MTU, the benefits of TOE
> or TSO are nearly vanishing.  Those who say they require high performance,
> but are unwilling to buy or produce networking gear with an MTU larger
> than 1500 bytes probably deserve what they get.

TSO gives a kind of virtual 64K MTU, FWIW.  But I do see your
point.


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