On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:45:01 -0800 (PST)
akepner@xxxxxxx wrote:
We still have customers using 5701 cards, and their syslogs fill with
"kernel unaligned access" messages. They may also see a significant
performance degradation due to the expense of unaligned accesses on
ia64. Here's a patch to address this (it is almost the same as the
patch which was discussed in
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=109770128816605&w=2).
In a quick throughput test, I found that this could improve throughput
by ~30% on an Altix.
Let's just do this all the time for this case, adding new config
options for stuff like this does nothing more than create confusion.