From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263535AbTIWTfP (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:35:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263533AbTIWTfO (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:35:14 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:52188 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263496AbTIWTfA (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:35:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:22:00 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: schwab@suse.de, bcrl@kvack.org, tony.luck@intel.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, peter@chubb.wattle.id.au, ak@suse.de, iod00d@hp.com, peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au, linux-ns83820@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Message-Id: <20030923122200.258215a3.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030923192804.GG13172@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030923142925.A16490@kvack.org> <20030923115200.1f5b44df.davem@redhat.com> <20030923192804.GG13172@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:28:04 +0100 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > That's not true; they could be avoided by using get_unaligned() and > put_unaligned(). You just don't want to because they'd make sparc suck. Not only sparc would be effected by this. Using {get,put}_unaligned() all over the networking would incur a penalty for many platforms, not just sparc.