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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Allow IP header alignment to be overriden
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:34:23 +1000
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:

> > Yes.  Please add a paragraph to that comment explaining what "unaligned
> > CPU cost" really means, ie. that the IP/TCP header members are going to
> > be accessed with alignment less than the types might require on a given
> > architecture.
> > 
> > Then I'll apply this and we can start beating up the drivers.
> 
> How does this look? The s2io, ixgb and e1000 drivers are converted.

Works for me, applied.

Thanks Anton.