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Subject: Re: driver packet coalesce
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On 5/31/07, Wilkinson, Alex <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> 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