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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.4] forcedeth network driver
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:05:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040124220545.GA3246@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4012D3C6.1050805@pobox.com>

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:21:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>>+static int alloc_rx(struct net_device *dev)
> >>>+{
> >[snip]
> >>>+    return 0;
> >>>+}
> >>
> >>skb_reserve() seems to be missing
> >>
> >Do you have specs that show that all nForce versions support unaligned 
> >buffers? skb_reserve is a performance feature, I don't want to add it 
> >yet. Testing that it works is on our TODO list.
> 
> hmmmm, is nForce ever found on non-x86 boxes?  I would think that 
> skb_reserve might be -required- for some platforms.

AMD64 and PPC64 as far as I know. But you may consider the first one
still a x86 box.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-24 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4012BF44.9@colorfullife.com>
2004-01-24 20:21 ` [PATCH] [2.4] forcedeth network driver Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 21:55   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-24 23:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 22:05   ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2004-01-24 22:33     ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-24 22:46       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-24 23:11         ` Paul Mackerras
2004-01-27 13:30   ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
2004-02-05  0:52 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-02-05  9:45 ` Jeff Garzik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-24 17:11 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-24 17:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 21:24   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-25  0:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 18:59 ` Francois Romieu
2004-01-24 19:02   ` Manfred Spraul

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