Re: The ultimate TOE design

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:46:24PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 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.

We still need to solve the same problem for RX though.

-Andi