RE: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4)

Feldman, Scott (scott.feldman@intel.com)
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:56:03 -0700

> Scott, would you be pleased if something was implemented out
> of the driver, in generic net code? Something that all the
> drivers could use, even if nothing but e1000 used it for now.

I suppose the driver could unconditionally call something like
skb_realign_for_broken_hw, which is a nop on non-broken archs, but would
it make more sense to not have the driver mess with the skb at all?

-scott
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