Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:01:00 +0100 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r279236 - head/sys/netinet Message-ID: <20150224200100.GA1217@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <1424804342.3293.9.camel@freebsd.org> References: <201502241257.t1OCv40V097418@svn.freebsd.org> <20150224173413.GF46794@funkthat.com> <1424804342.3293.9.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:59:02AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > ETHER_ALIGN is wonderful... if you're on a platform that can DMA to an > arbitrary boundary. Isn't it generally more a case of "if the device's DMA engine isn't extremely bad designed"? There is a strong correlation between devices not supporting DMA to arbitrary locations and devices requiring a single data segment. Heck, from a design point of few there is no justification for not supporting skipping a few byte at the start of the receive. The device can easily just add two bytes of noise to make it double word aligned if necessary... VIA Rhine forever! Joerghome | help
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