| To: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: alignment issues on netif_rx |
| From: | Henner Eisen <eis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | 18 Dec 2000 21:19:49 +0100 |
| Cc: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, johannes@xxxxxxxxxxx, kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | "David S. Miller"'s message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:26:05 -0800" |
| References: | <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012151332190.32035-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <200012151606.IAA20579@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20001216135124.A1045@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <200012180526.VAA02308@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
>>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
David> It only happens when you use non-{ipv4,ipv6} protocols or
David> devices which do not send aligned packets up to the
David> protocol stack.
David> Ie. if all you are doing is ethernet + ipv4, you'll never
David> trigger this.
PPP is in particular affected by this because the length of the header
is not fixed.
Henner
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