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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ] pcnet32: Fix PCnet32 performance bug on non-coherent
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:15:22 -0500
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Don Fry wrote:
> The PCnet32 driver always passed the the size of the largest possible packet
> to the pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu and pci_dma_sync_single_for_device.
> This results in a fairly large "colateral damage" in the caches and makes
> the flush operation itself much slower.  On a system with a 40MHz CPU this
> patch increases network bandwidth by about 12%.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Acked-by: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>

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