From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263398AbTIWVEW (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:04:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261470AbTIWVEW (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:04:22 -0400 Received: from cpc1-cwma1-5-0-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:64459 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261334AbTIWVEU (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:04:20 -0400 Subject: RE: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 From: Alan Cox To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: "David S. Miller" , davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, peter@chubb.wattle.id.au, bcrl@kvack.org, ak@suse.de, iod00d@hp.com, peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au, linux-ns83820@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1064350834.11760.4.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-7) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:00:34 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2003-09-23 at 19:21, Luck, Tony wrote: > a) the programmer is playing fast and loose with types and/or casts. > b) the end-user is going to be disappointed with the performance. c) the programmer is being clever and knows the unaligned access is cheaper on average than the cost of making sure it cant happen > Looking at a couple of ia64 build servers here I see zero unaligned > access messages in the logs. Anyone who can deliver network traffic to your box can soon fix that...