| To: | "Anton Blanchard" <anton@xxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | RE: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) |
| From: | "Feldman, Scott" <scott.feldman@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:52:18 -0700 |
| Cc: | <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx>, <hdierks@xxxxxxxxxx>, <dwg@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <milliner@xxxxxxxxxx>, <ricardoz@xxxxxxxxxx>, <twichell@xxxxxxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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| Thread-topic: | e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) |
> > Why not instead find out if it's possible to have the e1000 > > fetch the entire cache line where the first byte of the > > packet resides? Even ancient designes like SunHME do that. > > Rusty and I were wondering why the e1000 didnt do that exact thing. > > Scott: is it possible to enable such a thing? I thought the answer was no, so I double checked with a couple of hardware guys, and the answer is still no. -scott |
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