Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ns83820 0.17 (Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters) | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:56:11 +0100 |
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On March 14, 2002 09:37 pm, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > 4) Do you really mean to allocate memory for "REAL_RX_BUF_SIZE + 16"? > > Why not plain old REAL_RX_BUF_SIZE? > > The +16 is for alignment (just like the comment says). The hardware > requires that rx buffers be 64 bit aligned.
Nit: that would be REAL_RX_BUF_SIZE + 15.
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