From: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, krkumar2@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] via-velocity: Enable scatter/gather IO by default
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:19:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100217071944.14183e50@marrow.netinsight.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100216.162015.77292959.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:20:15 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> > Reduces CPU utilization significantly with sendfile for example.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
>
> I think you need to have a look at this patch before making
> a change like this:
>
> commit 83c98a8cd04dd0f848574370594886ba3bf56750
> Author: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue Jul 21 09:15:49 2009 +0000
>
> Remove unused zero-copy code from velocity NIC driver.
>
> This code hasn't been enabled in forever.
Well I reenabled it here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c79992fddee28bbd31b35ac297e1068d32930179
it was also cleaned up to remove all the #ifdefs around that code.
// Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-17 6:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-11 15:39 [net-next PATCH] via-velocity: Enable scatter/gather IO by default Simon Kagstrom
2010-02-17 0:20 ` David Miller
2010-02-17 6:19 ` Simon Kagstrom [this message]
2010-02-17 6:23 ` David Miller
2010-02-18 0:01 ` David Miller
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