From: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] chelsio: more rx speedup
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:30:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701100930.12798.netdev@axxeo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070109102647.05d92861@freekitty>
Stephen Hemminger schrieb:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:42:03 +0100
> Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de> wrote:
> > Stephen Hemminger schrieb:
> > > --- netdev-2.6.orig/drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c
> > > +++ netdev-2.6/drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c
> > Please use NET_IP_ALIGN here:
>
> Wrong, NET_IP_ALIGN is intended to deal with platforms where alignment of DMA is more
> important of alignment of structures. Therefore if data is copied, it should
> always be 2.
Ah! Thanks for clearing this up. These magic numbers always make my head spin
so I tried to come up with sth. useful :-)
If this pattern is present in many drivers, we might have a define or helper for this.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-10 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-15 19:07 [PATCH 0/3] chelsio driver changes Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-15 19:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] chelsio: fix error path Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-15 19:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] chelsio: NAPI speed improvement Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-15 19:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] chelsio: more receive cleanup Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-15 20:10 ` Francois Romieu
2006-12-15 22:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-16 0:26 ` Francois Romieu
2006-12-16 1:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-26 21:16 ` [PATCH 0/3] chelsio driver changes Jeff Garzik
2007-01-08 19:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] chelsio: error path fix Stephen Hemminger
[not found] ` <20070108112524.730e89f0@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
2007-01-08 19:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] chelsio: more rx speedup Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-09 8:42 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-01-09 18:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-10 2:08 ` Divy Le Ray
2007-01-10 8:34 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-01-10 8:30 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2007-01-19 3:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-08 19:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] chelsio: NAPI speed improvement Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-19 3:05 ` Jeff Garzik
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