On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 10:33:12AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > If on the other hand, tg3 is loaded on different chips all using different > access > function pointers, and there is steady and equal amount of traffic going > through > all these chips, I suppose the call destinations will no longer be > predictable > most of the time. But in this scenario, I doubt that conditional branches > with > direct calls will fare any better.
I concur w/ that assessment. Combine that w/ the potential ugliness of profligate expansion of if...else if...else if...else if...else style branches, and I think using the function pointers is acceptable and probably preferrable. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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
