Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264052AbTFPSoA (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:44:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264192AbTFPSnm (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:43:42 -0400 Received: from fmr01.intel.com ([192.55.52.18]:30708 "EHLO hermes.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264178AbTFPSmP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:42:15 -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: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:56:03 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) Thread-Index: AcM0NZhCXHVlgXspR9CtCHUR7FqVhgAAfjpQ From: "Feldman, Scott" To: "Dave Hansen" Cc: "Herman Dierks" , "David S. Miller" , , "Anton Blanchard" , , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Nancy J Milliner" , "Ricardo C Gonzalez" , "Brian Twichell" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jun 2003 18:56:03.0535 (UTC) FILETIME=[EF5FC5F0:01C33438] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 14 > 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 - 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/