From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: gallatin@myri.com
Cc: ossthema@de.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH (resubmit)]: fix lro_gen_skb() alignment
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:32:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071205.023201.62364209.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4755B09A.10508@myri.com>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:55:06 -0500
>
> Add a field to the lro_mgr struct so that drivers can specify how much
> padding is required to align layer 3 headers when a packet is copied
> into a freshly allocated skb by inet_lro.c:lro_gen_skb(). Without
> padding, skbs generated by LRO will cause alignment warnings on
> architectures which require strict alignment (seen on sparc64).
>
> Myri10GE is updated to use this field.
>
> Signed off by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Applied, thanks Andrew.
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2007-12-04 19:55 [PATCH (resubmit)]: fix lro_gen_skb() alignment Andrew Gallatin
2007-12-05 10:32 ` David Miller [this message]
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