Subject: Re: Ethernet frame padding changes
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/06/2004 22:34:38
In article <200407060410.11162.abuse@spamalicious.com>
abuse@spamalicious.com wrote:

> * rtl81x9.c and if_vr.c force a copy of every packet that's padded.

These chips require that each packet is 4-byte aligned
((mtod(m_head, uintptr_t) & 3) == 0) to DMA, and I wonder
how much mbufs which have data less than ETHER_PAD_LEN are
4-byte aligned...
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp