These kernels are long dead. If you want speed, use DPDK

Work on this patch was sponsored by NemeanNetworks.

Signed-off-by: Eddie Kohler <ekohler@gmail.com>

This is not identical to any of Joonwoo's patches, since it returns the rx
buffer length in a different way.

Signed-off-by: Eddie Kohler <ekohler@gmail.com>

Use time_before when comparing jiffies values. Based on problem reported
by Jason Park.

add polling patch from Matt Gordon and Massimiliano Poletto (Mazu), with help from previous patches (various) and especially Roman Chertov (Purdue)

add patch from Adam Greenhalgh and Beyers Cronje to avoid many tx timeouts: set time_stamp appropriately, as the other transmit paths do

add patch from Adam Greenhalgh and Beyers Cronje to avoid many tx timeouts: set time_stamp appropriately, as the other transmit paths do

do not print "polling!" error message, since it can happen during normal operation (Andy Van Maele, Nikitas)