From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Tigon3 5701 PCI-X recv performance problem Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:57:31 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3FB14D3B.8060200@pobox.com> References: <3F844578.40306@sgi.com> <20031008101046.376abc3b.davem@redhat.com> <3F8455BE.8080300@sgi.com> <20031008183742.GA24822@wotan.suse.de> <20031008122223.1ba5ac79.davem@redhat.com> <20031008202248.GA15611@oldwotan.suse.de> <3F8702FF.70500@sgi.com> <20031010192036.GA31727@wotan.suse.de> <3F8802E6.5030601@sgi.com> <20031011131921.GC21763@wotan.suse.de> <20031011105054.0e16a607.davem@redhat.com> <3F8C290A.3010508@sgi.com> <20031014095323.71c8b9fe.davem@redhat.com> <3FB03A56.7000709@sgi.com> <20031110182911.2c5a121b.davem@redhat.com> <3FB140E2.1070007@sgi.com> <20031111122545.6bb8bfe5.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: johnip@sgi.com, ak@suse.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jes@sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20031111122545.6bb8bfe5.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:04:50 -0600 > John Partridge wrote: > > >>+config CONFIG_UNALIGNED_EXPENSIVE >>+ bool "Use Aligned SKB's for Tigon3 5701 network adapters" >>+ depends on MCKINLEY >>+ default y >>+ > > > Also, this help text is broken too. > > I repeat: "THIS IS NOT A TIGON3 5701 NETWORK ADAPTER SPECIFIC HACK" > > It is a config variable that all network drivers in the kernel can > test to make copybreak and related decisions for copy vs. read > directly packet handling. > > Please stop making this a tigon3 specific thing. We should CC David Mosberger on this, too. He's been wanting something like this (for, as you say, all network drivers) for a while now. Jeff