Subject: Re: TCP-Protection is really a pain...

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:13:26 -0500

Christian Schmid wrote:
> What exactly is tcp segmentation offload? Where can I read more about 
> it? Should I disable it or is this not a good idea?

It's an optimization designed to reduce CPU usage for zero-copy apps 
(those that use sendfile(2)).

It would be a useful datapoint to disable TSO, and see if that improves 
things for you.

	Jeff