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Re: 3c59x (was Route cache performance under stress)

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 3c59x (was Route cache performance under stress)
From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:54:34 +0200
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Andi Kleen writes:

 > You can play some tricks with the driver to make eth_type_trans disappear
 > from the profiles. This usually helps a lot because it avoids one
 > full "fetch from cache cold memory" roundtrip per packet, which is slow on
 > any CPU.


 Andi!
 Interesting. Can we get into details?

 Cheers.

                                                --ro


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