On Fri, 2005-02-12 at 20:04 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > We don't even know the _nature_ of the cases where the e1000 prefetches > might want to be disabled by a platform. It's therefore impossible > for us to design any kind of reasonable interface or runtime test. > > All evidence shows the prefetches of the first cache line of the packet > data helps, always. We need well analyzed exceptions before we can > discuss this any further. :-)
I am going to go and install Linux (running something else at the moment) on this one piece of hardware that i happen to know was problematic and try to test like the way Robert did. That will be my good deed of the day ;-> cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
