Subject: Re: Tigon3 5701 PCI-X recv performance problem

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:57:31 -0500

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:04:50 -0600
> John Partridge <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>+config CONFIG_UNALIGNED_EXPENSIVE
>>+       bool "Use Aligned SKB's for Tigon3 5701 network adapters"
>>+       depends on MCKINLEY
>>+       default y
>>+
> 
> 
> Also, this help text is broken too.
> 
> I repeat: "THIS IS NOT A TIGON3 5701 NETWORK ADAPTER SPECIFIC HACK"
> 
> It is a config variable that all network drivers in the kernel can
> test to make copybreak and related decisions for copy vs. read
> directly packet handling.
> 
> Please stop making this a tigon3 specific thing.

We should CC David Mosberger on this, too.  He's been wanting something 
like this (for, as you say, all network drivers) for a while now.

	Jeff