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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: tg3 support broken on PPC, a workaround
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:13:25 -0700
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David S. Miller wrote:
> We really should be disconnecting at single cacheline boundaries
> on RISC systems.  The PCI controllers on RISC machines are
> going to disconnect the tg3 when it crosses a cache line
> boundary, so all these setting do is waste PCI bandwidth.

It is my understanding that PA-RISC and IA64 controllers behave differently. 
For confirmation one way or the other, I've cc'd someone who could talk about it 
much more cogently than I.

rick jones