Re: [PATCH bk-2.6.10] tg3:align IP headers from 5701 in PCI-X mode

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

David S. Miller wrote:
> 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.

agreed.

        Jeff