netdev - Re: r8169 : always copying the rx buffer to new skb

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:35:44 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	John Lumby <johnlumby@...mail.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	nic_swsd@...ltek.com
Subject: Re: r8169 :  always copying the rx buffer to new skb

John Lumby <johnlumby@...mail.com> :
> Anyone have any further thoughts on the proposal to avoid
> memcpy'ing?  (see earlier post)

The patch mixes different changes. Please avoid it.

Your MUA damaged the patch. Documentation/SubmittingPatches
could help if you have not read it yet.

The patch makes some gratuitous changes which needlessly
increase the differences (dirty_xy rename for instance).

A set_ringparam() method which does nothing until open()
is used does not exactly ring like "least surprize behavior"
to me.

The behavior under memory pressure is still unknown.

I am mildly convinced by the implementation.

-- 
Ueimor
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