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From: "Feldman, Scott" <scott.feldman@intel.com>
To: "Dave Hansen" <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Herman Dierks" <hdierks@us.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, <ltd@cisco.com>,
	"Anton Blanchard" <anton@samba.org>, <dwg@au1.ibm.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Nancy J Milliner" <milliner@us.ibm.com>,
	"Ricardo C Gonzalez" <ricardoz@us.ibm.com>,
	"Brian Twichell" <twichell@us.ibm.com>, <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: RE: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:56:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6F5CF431189FA4CBAEC9E7DD5441E010107D94F@orsmsx402.jf.intel.com> (raw)

> 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

             reply	other threads:[~2003-06-16 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-16 18:56 Feldman, Scott [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-16 18:21 e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) Feldman, Scott
2003-06-16 18:30 ` Dave Hansen
2003-06-15 14:40 Herman Dierks
2003-06-15 14:44 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 16:17 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-06-15 14:32 Herman Dierks
2003-06-13 23:52 Feldman, Scott
2003-06-13 23:52 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-14  0:55   ` Anton Blanchard
2003-06-14  1:34     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-14  0:03 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-06-13 22:13 Feldman, Scott
2003-06-13 17:03 Herman Dierks
2003-06-13 15:17 Herman Dierks
2003-06-13 16:21 ` Dave Hansen
2003-06-13 22:38   ` Anton Blanchard
2003-06-13 22:46     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-13 23:18       ` Anton Blanchard
2003-06-14  1:52         ` Lincoln Dale
2003-06-14  5:41           ` David S. Miller
2003-06-14  5:52             ` Lincoln Dale
2003-06-14  6:08               ` David S. Miller
2003-06-14  6:14                 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-14  6:27                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-14 17:08                   ` Greg KH
2003-06-14 17:19                     ` Greg KH
2003-06-14 17:21                     ` Riley Williams
2003-06-15  3:01                     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-14  5:16       ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-06-14  5:36         ` David S. Miller
2003-06-13  1:16 Feldman, Scott
2003-06-13 23:15 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-06-12  3:32 David Gibson

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