2.5 or 2.4 kernel profiling

[Dan Malek]

Graham Stoney wrote:

> > The advantage of Graham's DMA into skbufs isn't that the driver doesn't
> > copy/sum, it is that later when the IP stack does it we get burst transfers
> > into cache.
>
> But we get burst transfers into cache in either case,

No, because I originally allocated the receive buffers uncached.
Only cached/copyback pages will burst on the bus.  The CPM DMA will
always burst.


	-- Dan

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