Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64

Andi Kleen
2003-09-26T15:15:15Z

Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> writes:

> David wrote:
>
>>Fine, then we should have something like an rx_copybreak scheme in
>>the ns83820 driver too.
>>
> Is that really the right solution? Add a full-packet copy to every driver?
> IMHO the fastest solution would be to copy only the ip & tcp headers,
> and keep the rest as it is. And preferable in the network core, to
> avoid having to copy&paste that into every driver.

One problem is that you still have an unaligned->aligned copy to user space
in recvmsg (the user buffer is usually aligned and the network payload
will be unaligned). And that will be very slow.

-Andi