Re: Tigon3 5701 PCI-X recv performance problem

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:04:50 -0600
> John Partridge <johnip@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > +config CONFIG_UNALIGNED_EXPENSIVE
> > +       bool "Use Aligned SKB's for Tigon3 5701 network adapters"
> > +       depends on MCKINLEY
> > +       default y
> > +
>
> Also, this help text is broken too.
>
> I repeat: "THIS IS NOT A TIGON3 5701 NETWORK ADAPTER SPECIFIC HACK"
>
> It is a config variable that all network drivers in the kernel can
> test to make copybreak and related decisions for copy vs. read
> directly packet handling.
>
> Please stop making this a tigon3 specific thing.

We should CC David Mosberger on this, too.  He's been wanting something 
like this (for, as you say, all network drivers) for a while now.
        Jeff