Re: alignment issues on netif_rx

[Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "kuznet" == kuznet  <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

kuznet> Hello!
>> The problem is that some cards like the Tulip and Starfire don't
>> allow misaligned DMA.

kuznet> Aligned dma can be always used and, if protocol happens to be
kuznet> ethernet II, headers can be copied for faulty
kuznet> architectures. Actually, I am even not sure that misaligned
kuznet> accesses for intel are better than copy.

This still requires that the card can DMA to multiple buffers, or are
you suggesting to copy out the header no matter what?

Jes