Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:21:16 -0700 | From | "Feldman, Scott" <> |
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Herman wrote: > Its only the MTU 1500 case with non-TSO that we are > discussing here so copying a few bytes is really not a big > deal as the data is already in cache from copying into > kernel. If it lets the adapter run at speed, thats what > customers want and what we need. Granted, if the HW could > deal with this we would not have to, but thats not the case > today so I want to spend a few CPU cycles to get best > performance. Again, if this is not done on other platforms, I > don't understand why you care.
I care because adding the arch-specific hack creates a maintenance issue for me.
-scott
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