From: Heiner Kallweit
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:12:01 +0100
> 8 years ago, as part of 6f0333b8fde4 ("r8169: use 50% less ram for RX
> ring"), the alignment requirement for rx buffers was silently changed
> from 8 bytes to 16 bytes. I found nothing explaining this, also the
> chip specs I have onl
8 years ago, as part of 6f0333b8fde4 ("r8169: use 50% less ram for RX
ring"), the alignment requirement for rx buffers was silently changed
from 8 bytes to 16 bytes. I found nothing explaining this, also the
chip specs I have only mention an 8 byte requirement.
AFAICS kmalloc_node() guarantees allo
