Re: alignment issues on netif_rx

[Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

ANK> Hello!  All the rest will be pulled out on demand.
>>  Thats where your suggestion fails, we then have to copy the entire
>> packet then for the cards that disallow misaligned DMAs.

ANK> You still did not understand. We need not copy data more. Never.

Yes I did - you said we should only split off the Ethernet header but
as Don stated in his email some cards wont allow non-word length DMA
transactions either. Hence you cannot split off a 14 byte header and
get your IP+TCP headers aligned.

Jes