[697] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Checksum problem fixed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom May)
Sat Jul 15 21:18:43 1995
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:33:15 -0700
From: ftom@netcom.com (Tom May)
To: gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au
CC: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
>> Benchmark it if you do. Its a win on a 386 lance as the bus mastering
>> DMA means the packet isn't cached.
>Got an ultra card? :-) I just took a quick swipe at it and have all
>the changes into the 8390 core and the ultra driver, and it even works.
>I don't have any useful net benchmarks other than ftp installed here.
Before you benchmark, the csum_partial_copy() routine should be
changed to use the inner loop from the original csum_partial_copyffs()
function. I sent Alan a patch for this a while back. I suppose I
should benchmark it to make sure it is worthwhile.
Tom.
