>For the blissfully ignorant, what real world performance difference is >this going to make? Will TCP stack be "much faster"? Sorry, I only have LMbench [modified, the %!# icache-stomping code causes gas to punt] numbers for both this change and the faster le_ioasic copy code together. You could look at Jon Kay's Usenix 93 paper; so far it's basically the same code.