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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:49:17 +0200
From: "Joerg Albert" <jal2@gmx.de>
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Subject: 8xx: 2.4.25, fec.c, consistent_alloc and eth_copy_and_sum
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Looking into arch/ppc/8xx_io/fec.c in the linuxppc_2_4_devel git tree I wonder if it is necessary to copy every received frame from memory allocated by consistent_alloc into a socket buffer? Couldn't we let the FEC
DMA directly into the socket buffer to improve the performance?

BTW, has someone tried to implement NAPI in this driver?

Regards,
Joerg
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