Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

>    From: todd-lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:16:47 -0600 (MDT)
>
>    are there any standards in progress to support this.
>
> Your question makes no sense, it is a hardware optimization
> of an existing standard.  The chip merely is told what flows
> exist and it concatenates TCP data from consequetive packets
> for that flow if they arrive in sequence.
>

Hrm. Again, the big Q:
How "thmart" is this NIC going to be (think congestion control and
the du-jour flavor).

cheers,
jamal