Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:14:23 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] sky2: copy received packets on inefficient unaligned architecture | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:10:27 -0700
> Modified from original patch from Chris. > > The sky2 driver has to have 8 byte alignment of receive buffer > on some chip versions. On architectures which don't support efficient > unaligned access this doesn't work very well. The solution is to > just copy all received packets which is what the driver already > does for small packets. > > This allows the driver to be used on the Tilera TILEmpower-Gx, since > the tile architecture doesn't currently handle kernel unaligned accesses, > just userspace. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> > Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Applied.
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