From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akepner@sgi.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bk-2.6.10] tg3:align IP headers from 5701 in PCI-X mode
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:01:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41E2ED47.9080909@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050110125001.4fe4d00b.davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:45:01 -0800 (PST)
> akepner@sgi.com wrote:
>
>
>>We still have customers using 5701 cards, and their syslogs fill with
>>"kernel unaligned access" messages. They may also see a significant
>>performance degradation due to the expense of unaligned accesses on
>>ia64. Here's a patch to address this (it is almost the same as the
>>patch which was discussed in
>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=109770128816605&w=2).
>>
>>In a quick throughput test, I found that this could improve throughput
>>by ~30% on an Altix.
>
>
> Let's just do this all the time for this case, adding new config
> options for stuff like this does nothing more than create confusion.
agreed.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-10 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-04 1:45 [PATCH bk-2.6.10] tg3:align IP headers from 5701 in PCI-X mode akepner
2005-01-10 20:50 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-10 1:59 ` Arthur D. Kepner
2005-01-10 21:01 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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2005-01-11 18:49 Arthur D. Kepner
2005-01-17 22:12 ` David S. Miller
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