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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mchan@broadcom.com, mcarlson@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][TG3]Some cleanups
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:42:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191850923.4352.50.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071007.233235.115620499.davem@davemloft.net>

On Sun, 2007-07-10 at 23:32 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> This "cleanup" only makes sense if we go with your TX batching
> interfaces.
>
> They make the TX batching support patch for this driver "nice" and
> "clean", but it makes zero sense in any other context.  
> In fact, it
> adds more memory references in the TX pacth, and in fact does so by
> adding usage of the skb->cb[] which the driver didn't need to do
> previously.
> 
> So I'm going to hold off on this one for now, keep it in your TX
> batching changes instead.

The batching benefits from it because it reuses code. But i would put
readability as something of no value. 
In any case i would defer this for later.

cheers,
jamal


      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-08 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-30 18:11 [PATCH][TG3]Some cleanups jamal
2007-09-30 18:12 ` jamal
2007-10-02  0:21 ` Michael Chan
2007-10-02 12:37   ` jamal
2007-10-02 23:33     ` Michael Chan
2007-10-03 13:18       ` jamal
2007-10-07 15:12         ` jamal
2007-10-08  6:32           ` David Miller
2007-10-08 13:42             ` jamal [this message]

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