Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261956AbTIZGQq (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:16:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261957AbTIZGQq (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:16:46 -0400 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([80.146.160.66]:7619 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261956AbTIZGQp (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:16:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3F73D9C4.1050201@colorfullife.com> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:16:36 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 639 Lines: 19 David wrote: >Fine, then we should have something like an rx_copybreak scheme in >the ns83820 driver too. > > Is that really the right solution? Add a full-packet copy to every driver? IMHO the fastest solution would be to copy only the ip & tcp headers, and keep the rest as it is. And preferable in the network core, to avoid having to copy&paste that into every driver. -- Manfred - 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/