Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: rx_copybreak value for non-i386 architectures | Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:42:51 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> for non-i386 architectures. Once I thought I understood it and it seems > related to cache line alignment. However, I am not sure exactly about the > reason now. Can someone enlighten me a little bit?
A lot of pci net cards can only start packets on a 4 byte boundary. A lot of CPU's need 4 byte aligned read/writes for performance. The ethernet header is howerver 14 bytes long.
For CPU's with poor unaligned performance it turns out better to copy or copy/checksum the data so the IP/TCP headers are aligned. If the card can hit 16bit boundaries then you will see card drivers doing
alloc_skb(blah)
skb_reserve(skb, 2);
to align the header of he buffer so that the IP data is aligned
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