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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: therbert@google.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: Allow no-cache copy from user on transmit
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:05:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110404.130538.25131618.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik=hsDPjLUx+evW698moouj5A35jw@mail.gmail.com>

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:44:08 -0700

> I'll take them out, but that will result in one needless conditional
> in the transmit path for architectures that don't support the no cache
> copy, which seems to be everything except x86!?

I think this is a small price to pay for the build regression
exposure, and perheps it's also a bit of an incentive for more
architectures to support nocache copies :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-04 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-04  4:56 [PATCH v3] net: Allow no-cache copy from user on transmit Tom Herbert
2011-04-04  5:03 ` David Miller
2011-04-04  5:23   ` David Miller
2011-04-04 15:10     ` Tom Herbert
2011-04-04 16:52       ` David Miller
2011-04-04 19:44         ` Tom Herbert
2011-04-04 20:05           ` David Miller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-31  5:04 Tom Herbert
2011-03-31  8:52 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-04-01  4:05   ` Tom Herbert
2011-04-02  3:49 ` David Miller
2011-04-02  3:52   ` David Miller

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