In article <FEE85110-D6C3-11D8-AAE5-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com>,
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
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>On Jul 15, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Andrey Petrov wrote:
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>> It enought to recompile i82557.c file without -mbwx to see timeouts on 
>> 'large file
>> write over nfs'. Smells like compiler bug.
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>No, it's actually the stupid 82557.  It requires a atomic write to a 
>non-aligned region in order for proper operation.  Fine on IA, not fine 
>on almost everything else.
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>I think FreeBSD has an #ifdef __alpha__ in their "fxp" driver to 
>address this.  I'm tempted to add one such myself, at this point.
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Maybe have a set of macros that deal with unaligned writes?

christos