[openib-general] [PATCH 39 of 39] IB/ipath - use streaming copy in RDMA interrupt handler to reduce packet loss

[David Miller]

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:44:05 -0700

> Then is prefetching in memcpy really that important to them.

Not really, the thread just blocks while waiting for memory.
On stores they do a cacheline fill optimization similar to
the powerpc.

> Relying on PCI-X devices to issue multiple requests then?

Perhaps :)