From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pcnet32: only allocate init_block dma consistent Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 04:21:55 +0000 Message-ID: <20070307042155.GA6495@linux-mips.org> References: <20070306184523.GA23268@verizon.net> <20070307031011.GA4281@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Don Fry , jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Michael K. Edwards" Return-path: Received: from ftp.linux-mips.org ([194.74.144.162]:56782 "EHLO ftp.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932471AbXCGEXw (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 23:23:52 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:56274 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20021495AbXCGEXu (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 04:23:50 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:39:21PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On 3/6/07, Ralf Baechle wrote: > >This small change btw. delivers about ~ 3% extra performance on a very > >slow test system. > > Has this change been tested / benchmarked under VMWare? pcnet32 is > the (default?) virtual device presented by VMWare Workstation, and > that's probably a large fraction of its use in the field these days. > But then Don probably already knows that. :-) Price question: why would this patch make a difference under VMware? :-) Ralf