netdev - RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/8] vxge: Align the memory only if it is misaligned.

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Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:05:23 -0400
From:	"Ramkrishna Vepa" <Ramkrishna.Vepa@...r.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Sreenivasa Honnur" <Sreenivasa.Honnur@...erion.com>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/8] vxge: Align the memory only if it is misaligned.

> If you want to allocate 4K chunks and make sure they are at least 128
> byte aligned, you can allocated pages (which are always PAGE_SIZE
> aligned) and chop them up into the appropriate block size as needed.
> 
> This is exactly how drivers/net/niu.c handles this situation.
> 
> See drivers/net/niu.c:niu_rbr_add_page()
Thanks Dave! There's quite a bit of change required in the driver for
this. We'll submit the current set of patches we are working on and then
look into submitting this change.

Ram
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