Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265581AbTFMXie (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:38:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265583AbTFMXie (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:38:34 -0400 Received: from fmr01.intel.com ([192.55.52.18]:59866 "EHLO hermes.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265581AbTFMXid convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:38:33 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 Subject: RE: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:52:18 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) Thread-Index: AcMyAnKU0XzTrYR3SGmq2WX57ZZcjAABAyWw From: "Feldman, Scott" To: "Anton Blanchard" , "David S. Miller" Cc: , , , , , , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jun 2003 23:52:19.0006 (UTC) FILETIME=[D32425E0:01C33206] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 675 Lines: 17 > > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/