| To: | "Dave Hansen" <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | RE: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) |
| From: | "Feldman, Scott" <scott.feldman@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:56:03 -0700 |
| Cc: | "Herman Dierks" <hdierks@xxxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, <ltd@xxxxxxxxx>, "Anton Blanchard" <anton@xxxxxxxxx>, <dwg@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Nancy J Milliner" <milliner@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Ricardo C Gonzalez" <ricardoz@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Brian Twichell" <twichell@xxxxxxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| Thread-index: | AcM0NZhCXHVlgXspR9CtCHUR7FqVhgAAfjpQ |
| Thread-topic: | e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) |
> Scott, would you be pleased if something was implemented out > of the driver, in generic net code? Something that all the > drivers could use, even if nothing but e1000 used it for now. I suppose the driver could unconditionally call something like skb_realign_for_broken_hw, which is a nop on non-broken archs, but would it make more sense to not have the driver mess with the skb at all? -scott |
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