Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

From: Gagan Arneja <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:01:37 -0700

> If you have braindead slow hardware,
 > there is nothing that says your start_xmit routine can't do its own
 > coalescing.  The cost of calling the transmit routine is the 
responsibility
 > of the driver, not the core network code.

Yes, except you very likely run the risk of the driver introducing 
latency. The problem is prevalent enough that one can argue for a fix (a 
better one at that) higher up. And it's not all that high up that we 
need to get completely paranoid about it.

 > --
 > Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
 >

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Gagan