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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:38:27 +0400
From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:07:02PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:16:36 +0200
> Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is that really the right solution? Add a full-packet copy to every driver?
> 
> In the short term, yes it is.

What about aligning the packet directly in the rx buffer (by memmoving
the entire packet to buf+2) instead of copying to another skb?
This appears to be a) more than 2 times faster b) easy to implement.

Ivan.