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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcnet32: only allocate init_block dma consistent
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:13:14 -0500
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To: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>
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Don Fry wrote:
> The patch below moves the init_block out of the private struct and
> only allocates init block with pci_alloc_consistent.
> 
> This has two effects:
> 
> 1. Performance increase for non cache coherent machines, because the
>    CPU only data in the private struct are now cached
> 
> 2. locks are working now for platforms, which need to have locks
>    in cached memory
> 
> Also use netdev_priv() instead of dev->priv
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>

please separate the netdev_priv() change into a separate, precursor 
patch, and resend both