On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 08:39, Marco Mellia wrote:

We'll be glad to spend some time trying this out. Please, we are not
very confortable with the linux bitkeeper maintenance method. Can we ask
you to provide us a patch to a standard kernel/driver (whatever you
prefer...)? Also a complete source sub-tree would be ok ;-)

Would a -rcX patch be fine for you?
2.6.10-rc2; which means you willl take 2.6.9 patch it with the
patch-2.6.10-rc2.gz from kernel.org/v2.6/testing directory then
patch one more time with patch i give you. 
Let me know if you are uncomfortable with that as well.
[Sorry, I am disk poor and my stupid ISP still charges $1/MB/month even
in this age if i put it up at cyberus].

In the patch i give you i will include rx path improvement code that I
got from David Morsberger; I "think" i have seen some improvements with
it but i am not 100% sure. If you repeat the test where you drop the
packet right after eth_type_trans() with this patch on, I would be very
interested if you see any improvements.    
 
In any case, expect something from me this weekend or monday (big party
this weekend ;->).

cheers,
jamal