>Function calls are actually more expensive, you eat an entry in >the cpu's return address cache. i was thinking you could do it higher up, like around the hard_start_xmit level. this would create a bit of replicated code, but you could abuse the preprocessor a bit i imagine. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html