On Sat, 30 May 2020 23:54:36 +0200 Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Change driver private data type to struct rtl8169_private * to avoid > some overhead. > > Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> > --- Are you sure about this. Using netdev_priv() is actually at a fixed offset from netdev, and almost always the compiler can optimize and use one register. Look at the assembly code difference of what you did.