On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:27:25PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: ... > Is there any chance all this reworking might get us to a position where > the protocol header in an mbuf doesn't have to be 32-bit aligned > anymore? We pay a pretty heavy price for that requirement in the > drivers of the least capable hardware we support, the systems that have > the least horsepower to spare to make an extra copy of each packet to > realign it.
So are you suggesting to use some 'copy_unaligned_32()' function/macro to access 32-bit protocol fields in the network stack ? (16-bit entries should not be an issue) cheers luigi _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
