From: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:49:36 +0100
> > On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 21:32 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 09:33:36AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > > > We still require four-byte alignment, no? > > > > Not at all. If NET_IP_ALIGN is zero then it won't be four-byte > > aligned (since the Ethernet header is 14 bytes long). > > Right. I just didn't think that would be a valid value for an > architecture to set. It is, and explicitly used by powerpc to get more of the DMA transfers 64-byte aligned which is critical for performance on some powerpc boxes. - 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
