From: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:37:31 -0700
> Agreed (although not really RISC -- sparc64 and ia64 have this
> problem, while ppc is fine with unaligned access). However
> __attribute__((packed,aligned)) has just been brought to my attention.
> For example, on sp
David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:34:23 -0700
>
>> Silly offenders: include/net/ipx.h
>> include/net/ieee80211.h
>> include/net/ip6_tunnel.h
>> include/net/ndisc.h
>>
David> For the cases where it is no actually necessary, the code
David> generation cost on RISC cpus is very high. Byte loads and
David> stores will be used to access _every_ member of such
David> structures on RISC machines because the compiler cannot
David> guarentee the alig
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:02:08 -0700
> All the structures in sctp.h that use packed atrribute define
> standard on-wire SCTP chunk/parameter formats. They need to be at the
> exact offsets as they go on wire.
> I think we saw some issues without the pac
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 13:34 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> After reading:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6693
>
> I noticed there were stupid uses of packed attribute in several network
> headers.
>
> Silly offenders: include/net/ipx.h
> include/
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:34:23 -0700
> Silly offenders: include/net/ipx.h
> include/net/ieee80211.h
> include/net/ip6_tunnel.h
> include/net/ndisc.h
> include/li
After reading:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6693
I noticed there were stupid uses of packed attribute in several network headers.
Silly offenders:include/net/ipx.h
include/net/ieee80211.h
include/net/ip6_tunnel.h
