Re: if_tap unaligned access problem

From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 04/28/05

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To: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net>

    On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:39:27AM -0700, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
    > you probably should file pr. (1) and (2) above are quick fixes. (3) is
    > more complicated and, maybe, not desirable.

    3) may be good. I have an ATM driver which may need this behaviour. I
    haven't had a chance to get test coverage on a non-i386 platform so it's
    entirely possible that unaligned accesses are happening further up in
    netinet land (after coming up from the driver, into netnatm, and into
    IP land).

    jmg's suggestion of bringing in the NetBSD patches to allow the entire
    network stack to be compiled with unaligned accesses (for those platforms
    which support it) is interesting because it can simplify or eliminate
    some of the acrobatics needed in network drivers to deal with the mbuf
    alignment.

    Though I'd like to know what Harti thinks re netnatm.

    Regards,
    BMS
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