Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:58:29 -0700 | From | "Luck, Tony" <> |
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Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2003-09-23 at 19:21, Luck, Tony wrote: > > a) the programmer is playing fast and loose with types and/or casts. > > b) the end-user is going to be disappointed with the performance. > > c) the programmer is being clever and knows the unaligned access is > cheaper on average than the cost of making sure it cant happen
Which is great until the "cleverly written" program is fed a data set that pushes into the unaligned case far more frequently than the programmer anticipated.
> > Looking at a couple of ia64 build servers here I see zero unaligned > > access messages in the logs. > > Anyone who can deliver network traffic to your box can soon > fix that...
See answer above :-)
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