netdev - Re: [PATCH v6] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver

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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Sp-mAV1556pZvCvHzQ=MQNHUzjo0ap2DhKwWe@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:51:42 +0800
From:	Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com, joe@...ches.com, dilinger@...ued.net,
	mirqus@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@...aday-tech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver

Hi Eric,

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> Le mardi 01 mars 2011 à 13:20 +0800, Po-Yu Chuang a écrit :
>
>> That means, since every rx buffer is large enough, it is impossible to
>> get a multi-segment packets.
>>
>> So I simplified ftmac100_rx_packet().
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Ah, I just want to submit a v7.
Could you resign again later, please? :-)

> I am only wondering then if not using fragments would be faster then
> (eventually doing copybreaks for small frames like tg3)

Although not many circumstances are tested.
iperf shows that it is a little faster to use fragments than memcpy, so...

> But if you plan to get new hw soon, you have the infrastructure...

best regards,
Po-Yu Chuang
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