On Mon, 2007-05-11 at 14:52 +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > It seems this performance loss shouldn't be so big because ntohl() > is probably quite well optimized in assembler. But, as I've written, > since there is max. 1 byte meaningful to us there is some additional > possibility to get it other way, but I doubt it's worth to bother, > and this can be done with some later patch, after all.
Agreed on optimizing later. It will probably keep nagging at me for sometime.... > If we manage to convince Jamal, IMHO a patch to something current like > 2.6.24-rc1-git14 (or maybe -rc2 soon), should suffice (plus some > options to diff to get function names etc. eg.: diff -Nurp). Try with > Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Git isn't necessary at all. And don't > forget about a changelog. That code hasnt changed at all in a few years, so even against 2.6.24-rc1 should be fine and can be applied cleanly to Daves net-2.6. Radu, please refer to my earlier email on things to try. 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
