Re: driver packet coalesce

On 5/31/07, Wilkinson, Alex <alex.wilkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
0n Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:45:05PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:

> Does any driver do this now? And if a driver were to coalesce
> packets and send something up the stack that violates mss
> will it barf?

erm, what is meant by "coalesce" ?


combining packets before sending to the stack, aka LRO.

Jack
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