Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: SMC Etherpower II / EPIC/100 83C170 | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:52:31 +0100 (BST) |
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> A unique feature is the ability to transfer just the header of received > packets and wait for the driver to provide a buffer for the rest of the > data. This enables a secure U-Net style direct-to-user-address-space > receive routine.
Not quite unique but very useful. The latest tulip sort of does this anyway by keeping big sk_buff buffers around ready to use. Having a card that can do this better will be nice.
This hack on the FDDI driver appears to be worth about 1.5 to 2Mbytes/second from numbers I've been given
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