Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64

[Grant Grundler]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:29:25PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
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> (yet another hardware issue pushed off on software for no significant gain).

Even x86 pays at least a one cycle penalty for every misaligned access.
In general, open source code has no excuse for using misaligned fields.
It's (mostly) avoidable.  TCP/IP headers are the historical exception.

One could make the same arguement that a modern NIC should not require
16 byte alignment for DMA. It's a tradeoff one way or the other.
Just a matter of perspective.

grant
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