Re: Un aligned addresses

[David S. Miller]

From: Conio sandiago <coniodiago@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:06:46 +0530

> After a lot of observation ,
> i observed that i am getting un-aligned addresses of the data payload
> from the TCP/IP stack.because of this problem i always have to do
> memcpy to a word aligned buffer,because of which throughput is reduced
> significantly.

Do skb_reserve(skb, 2), before you give the buffer at
skb->data to the chip, this will align all the headers
correctly.
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