Re: 3c59x

2 messages, 2 authors, 2003-06-10 · open the first message on its own page

Re: 3c59x

From: chas williams <hidden>
Date: 2003-06-10 17:39:15

Function calls are actually more expensive, you eat an entry in
the cpu's return address cache.
i was thinking you could do it higher up, like around the hard_start_xmit
level.  this would create a bit of replicated code, but you could abuse
the preprocessor a bit i imagine.

Re: 3c59x

From: David S. Miller <hidden>
Date: 2003-06-10 17:43:05

   From: chas williams [off-list ref]
   Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:39:15 -0400
   
   i was thinking you could do it higher up, like around the hard_start_xmit
   level.  this would create a bit of replicated code, but you could abuse
   the preprocessor a bit i imagine.

3c59x already does this, so now we'd have 4 different copies.
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