From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pcnet32: only allocate init_block dma consistent
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 04:21:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070307042155.GA6495@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2b55d220703061939w731dfcc4t8e0ddcf238203bd@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:39:21PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> >This small change btw. delivers about ~ 3% extra performance on a very
> >slow test system.
>
> Has this change been tested / benchmarked under VMWare? pcnet32 is
> the (default?) virtual device presented by VMWare Workstation, and
> that's probably a large fraction of its use in the field these days.
> But then Don probably already knows that. :-)
Price question: why would this patch make a difference under VMware? :-)
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-07 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-06 18:45 [PATCH 1/2] pcnet32: only allocate init_block dma consistent Don Fry
2007-03-07 3:10 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-03-07 3:39 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-03-07 4:21 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-03-07 16:35 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-03-07 19:22 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-03-07 20:15 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-03-08 1:44 ` Don Fry
2007-03-07 14:50 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-09 17:01 ` Jeff Garzik
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