[PATCH] arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c

Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund at lumentis.se
Wed Oct 23 17:51:22 EST 2002


On Monday 21 October 2002 15:13, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Hi
>
> Here is a patch to drop the expensive memcpy of received ethernet frames in
> interrupt context. I have not done any bench marking, but mounting a NFS
> rootfs feels faster.
>
> I am using a heavily modified enet.c in my system, but I think I got the
> patch correct.
>
> Also fixed a bug in set_multicast_list(), move the dmi list forward when
> walking it(dmi = dmi->next;)
>
> Comments? Anyone care to do some benchmarking?

No comments so far, no one interested in this?

A question, why do enet.c pass bad frames to netif_rx? Only late collisions
are disregarded, the rest is passed on.

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