From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akepner@sgi.com
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bk-2.6.10] tg3:align IP headers from 5701 in PCI-X mode
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:50:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050110125001.4fe4d00b.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0501031713460.16417-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:45:01 -0800 (PST)
akepner@sgi.com wrote:
> We still have customers using 5701 cards, and their syslogs fill with
> "kernel unaligned access" messages. They may also see a significant
> performance degradation due to the expense of unaligned accesses on
> ia64. Here's a patch to address this (it is almost the same as the
> patch which was discussed in
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=109770128816605&w=2).
>
> In a quick throughput test, I found that this could improve throughput
> by ~30% on an Altix.
Let's just do this all the time for this case, adding new config
options for stuff like this does nothing more than create confusion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-10 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-04 1:45 [PATCH bk-2.6.10] tg3:align IP headers from 5701 in PCI-X mode akepner
2005-01-10 20:50 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-01-10 1:59 ` Arthur D. Kepner
2005-01-10 21:01 ` Jeff Garzik
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2005-01-11 18:49 Arthur D. Kepner
2005-01-17 22:12 ` David S. Miller
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