From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: 3c59x Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030610.103030.15245573.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030610171617.GC1959@gtf.org> <20030610.101452.35033262.davem@redhat.com> <20030610172556.GD1959@gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ak@suse.de, bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de, hadi@shell.cyberus.ca, ralph+d@istop.com, xerox@foonet.net, sim@netnation.com, fw@deneb.enyo.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: jgarzik@pobox.com In-Reply-To: <20030610172556.GD1959@gtf.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jeff Garzik Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:25:56 -0400 MMIO isn't as bad as PIO, and the 'runtime choice' setup implies slowing down the MMIO path, too. No end user will see the change then, no distribution vendor worth their salt will ship with MMIO enabled. Right now we get only PIO and everybody suffers. Runtime MMIO selection is a net win for everyone.