Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would think a non-conditional deref would be easily pipelined. > If the net_device struct was more cache dense, it probably would > even out.
It might be a good idea to consider strategic prefetch points for it. e.g. TCP executes quite a lot of code until it finally decides to dev_queue_xmit. Prefetching before that might be a good idea. -Andi - 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
