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copybreak and gige network drivers

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Subject: copybreak and gige network drivers
From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:25:12 -0400
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I'm looking at doing some work on a driver for the gige portion of the Marvell Disco2.


The existing driver allocates mtu-sized buffers and always passes them off to the network stack. I'm thinking about adding some copybreak optimizations, but I'm not sure what value I should use for the copybreak. I would expect most packets to be on the smaller side.

Any suggestions?

Chris

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