Subject: Re: Handling of short frames in gem(4) (was: CVS commit:
To: None <source-changes@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/02/2008 22:01:59
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:09:27PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > Or even just have a mbuf for each TX ring entry and check for that
> > before freeing.
> 
> Actually it shold be possible to tx the padding from a permanently mapped
> buffer of zeros.

On platforms where DMA access is non-trivial, it might be faster to just
copy the whole to statically mapped TX ring elements. That's what I
wanted to say.

Joerg