From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 19:14:21 +0100

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> David Miller wrote:
> > For now, yes.  The transmit path itself in the generic network
> > device layer is where the serialization comes from.
> 
> This is true in the general case, but can be substantially mitigated
> by segmentation offload.  Unfortunately GSO doesn't help much as the
> overhead of allocating the extra skbs is fairly high.

But GSO still does help a lot for chips that lack hw TSO support,
such as NIU, therefore sw GSO support in the NIU driver was pretty
high on my todo list.
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