On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:45:23AM -0800, Don Fry wrote:

> The patch below moves the init_block out of the private struct and
> only allocates init block with pci_alloc_consistent. 
> 
> This has two effects:
> 
> 1. Performance increase for non cache coherent machines, because the
>    CPU only data in the private struct are now cached

This small change btw. delivers about ~ 3% extra performance on a very
slow test system.

  Ralf
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