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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>,
	linux-ns83820@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:43:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030919044315.GC7666@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030919043847.GA2996@cup.hp.com>

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:38:47PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:16:29PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> > The obvious approach of realigning the SKB by 2 bytes seems not to
> > work.
> 
> Could you be more detailed about the "obvious approach"?
> ie show the diff of what you changed.
> 
> Several other NIC driver "alias" (as davidm describes it) the buffer
> by reserving two bytes at the beginning of the recieve buffer
> where header and payload data are DMAd on inbound traffic.

It is a mixed blessing, because the result is a non cache line 
aligned buffer. Some NIC chipsets don't like this because they have
to do a read-modify-write cycle for the first cache line and cannot
burst the full packet.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-19  4:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-19  4:16 Peter Chubb
2003-09-19  4:38 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-19  4:43   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-09-19  5:01     ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-19  5:53       ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-19 10:49         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23  0:34           ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23  0:36             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23  6:22               ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 10:40                 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23 10:51                   ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 14:59                     ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 17:27                       ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 17:56                         ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24  2:55                           ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 23:04                         ` Ian Wienand
2003-09-23 23:35                           ` David S. Miller
2003-09-19  5:04     ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-19  5:11       ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23 17:58 Van Maren, Kevin
2003-09-23 17:57 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:27   ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 18:47     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:17       ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 19:10         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 20:00           ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24  3:08             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-25 16:11               ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-09-26  1:12                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:06 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 19:11   ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:21 Luck, Tony
2003-09-23 18:29 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 18:45   ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:51   ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 18:51     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 20:38       ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 20:45         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 22:35           ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 23:35             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24  0:13               ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-24  0:04                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24  1:58               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-23 19:04     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 18:54   ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 18:52     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:09       ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 19:01         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:16           ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 19:08             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:28       ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-23 19:22         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 23:15           ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-23 23:37             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24  0:14               ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-24  0:06                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:10   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-23 19:11     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 19:22       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-23 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-23 21:16   ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24  1:47     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 22:58 Luck, Tony
2003-09-23 23:32 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24  5:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-26  6:16 Manfred Spraul
2003-09-26  6:07 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-26  6:41   ` David Mosberger
2003-09-26 14:38   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-09-27  3:12     ` David S. Miller
     [not found] <zU7D.2Ji.27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-26 15:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-26 15:41   ` David Mosberger
     [not found] <A2yd.64p.31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <A2yd.64p.29@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <A317.6GH.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-26 17:04     ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-26 17:22       ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-26 17:47       ` David Mosberger
2003-09-27  3:57         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-27  4:36         ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27  4:52           ` David Mosberger
     [not found] <A4gy.8wi.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <A4gy.8wi.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <A4gy.8wi.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <A4gy.8wi.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <A4Tv.Ud.37@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <AepM.5Zb.41@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-27  4:26           ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27  4:34             ` David Mosberger
2003-09-27 23:36             ` David S. Miller

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