From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:48:12 +0200
> My plan is to give dev_alloc_skb a struct netdevice * argument and > introduce a alloc_netdev_node so the driver can tell what node the > device is on. This gives a significant speedup for cell. I already > have this implemented in fact but only converted a handfull of drivers. > > Does this approach sound okay? I do not think it is feasible to add a netdevice argument to such a widely used interface. I would instead recommend that you add a new interface, and we convert drivers gradually. That netdevice argument is useful for other things. For example, you can use it to apply a per-netdev random memory allocation failure setting, to test the robustness of drivers. I came up with that idea something like 7 years ago but never got around to doing it :) - 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
