RE: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4)

[Feldman, Scott]

> > Why not instead find out if it's possible to have the e1000 
> > fetch the entire cache line where the first byte of the
> > packet resides?  Even ancient designes like SunHME do that.
> 
> Rusty and I were wondering why the e1000 didnt do that exact thing.
> 
> Scott: is it possible to enable such a thing?

I thought the answer was no, so I double checked with a couple of
hardware guys, and the answer is still no.

-scott