netdev - Re: [PATCH (resubmit)]: fix lro_gen

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Message-Id: <20071205.023201.62364209.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:32:01 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gallatin@...i.com
Cc:	ossthema@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH (resubmit)]: fix lro_gen_skb() alignment

From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@...i.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:55:06 -0500

> 
> Add a field to the lro_mgr struct so that drivers can specify how much
> padding is required to align layer 3 headers when a packet is copied
> into a freshly allocated skb by inet_lro.c:lro_gen_skb().  Without
> padding, skbs generated by LRO will cause alignment warnings on
> architectures which require strict alignment (seen on sparc64).
> 
> Myri10GE is updated to use this field.
> 
> Signed off by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@...i.com>

Applied, thanks Andrew.
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