Re: [PATCH] 2.6.9 Use skb_padto() in drivers/net/8390.c

2005-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-02-19 at 05:20, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > It means that padto has improved a lot (or the underlying allocators). > > It also still means the patch makes the code slower and introduces > > changes that have no benefit into the kernel, so while its good to see > > its not relevant its still

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.9 Use skb_padto() in drivers/net/8390.c

2005-02-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: On Llu, 2005-01-10 at 02:41, Paul Gortmaker wrote: Using rdtscl over the area affected by the patch on the two variants for a sample of 234 small packets, I see an average of 4141 for using the existing stack scratch area, and 4162 for using skb_padto. That is a difference of ab