Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:40:41 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/include _types.h src/sys/i386/include _types.h src/sys/net if_bridge.c src/sys/netinet ip_var.h src/sys/netinet6 ip6_var.h Message-ID: <42C90419.8070509@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200507022313.j62NDWYC028248@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200507022313.j62NDWYC028248@repoman.freebsd.org>
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> Check the alignment of the IP header before passing the packet up to the > packet filter. This would cause a panic on architectures that require strict > alignment such as sparc64 (tier1) and ia64/ppc (tier2). FYI, any modern ppc implementation doesn't require strict alignment for integer load/stores though there's a performance penalty for having to split the access into smaller ones. later, Peter.
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