On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:35:30AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > >Price question: why would this patch make a difference under VMware? :-) > > Moving the struct pcnet32_private from the GFP_DMA32 init_block to the > GFP_KERNEL netdev allocation may be a win even on systems where > GFP_DMA32 is normally cached, because the private area will get read > ahead into cache when the netdev is touched.
GFP_* flags have no influence on caching or prefetching. Ralf - 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
