RE: [PATCH net-next 08/12] r8152: support TSO

[Eric Dumazet]

On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 14:35 +0000, David Laight wrote:

> Does that mean you are splitting the 64k 'ethernet packet' from TCP
> is software? I've looked at the ax88179 where the hardware can do it.
> 
> Is there really a gain doing segmentation here if you have to do the
> extra data copy?

There is no 'extra' copy.

There is _already_ a copy, so what's the deal of doing this copy in a SG
enabled way ?



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