Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:15:31 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:13:46 +0100
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:03:46PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > Any NIC, even the dumbest ones, can be made to receive into pages. > > OK I thought that it was not always easy to split between headers > and payload. I know that myri10ge can be configured to receive into > either skbs or pages, but I was not sure about the real implications > behind that.
For a dumb NIC you wouldn't split, you'd receive directly, the entire packet, into part of a page.
Then right befire you give it to the stack, you pull the ethernet header from the page into the linear area.
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