Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:56:46 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: sk_buff alignments |
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:34:55PM -0800, Rick Ellis wrote: > The Dp83820 gigabit ethernet chip requires its buffers to be > on 64 bit boundaries. Does this mean I have to copy the > packet?
ns83820.c copies packets to meet the alignment issues that the networking stack has on non-x86 platforms. Tx packets do not need to be copied.
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