Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:00:18 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] eHEA: Receive SKB Aggregation |
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Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > This patch enables the receive side processing to aggregate TCP packets within > the HEA device driver. It analyses the packets already received after an > interrupt arrived and forwards these as chains of SKBs for the same TCP > connection with modified header field. We have seen a lower CPU load and > improved throughput for small numbers of parallel TCP connections. > As this feature is considered as experimental it is switched off by default > and can be activated via a module parameter. > > Some additional security checks have been added since the last posting. > > Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
as noted in comments, we don't need to recreate this in every driver. do something more generic.
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