netdev - Re: [PATCH] pcnet32: only allocate init

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Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:30:05 -0800
From:	Don Fry <pcnet32@...izon.net>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcnet32: only allocate init_block dma consistent

The change to use netdev_priv can only be done After moving the init
block out of the private structure.  It will break the driver if done
first, which is why they were sent together.

I will separate the changes and resend them.

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:13:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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@...ha.franken.de>
> 
> please separate the netdev_priv() change into a separate, precursor 
> patch, and resend both
> 
> 
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