From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Luck, Tony" Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:58:29 +0000 Subject: RE: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2003-09-23 at 19:21, Luck, Tony wrote: > > a) the programmer is playing fast and loose with types and/or casts. > > b) the end-user is going to be disappointed with the performance. > > c) the programmer is being clever and knows the unaligned access is > cheaper on average than the cost of making sure it cant happen Which is great until the "cleverly written" program is fed a data set that pushes into the unaligned case far more frequently than the programmer anticipated. > > Looking at a couple of ia64 build servers here I see zero unaligned > > access messages in the logs. > > Anyone who can deliver network traffic to your box can soon > fix that... See answer above :-) -Tony Luck