Also keep in mind that as the connection progresses the TSO size used will get larger and larger. At the beginning, we do not use TSO for the first packet, and then it progressively grows larger and larger as the congestion window opens up. That being said, no matter what your proposed patch makes zero sense. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html