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From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink•co.uk>
To: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink•co.uk>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@lists•codethink.co.uk, linux-usb@vger•kernel.org,
	oneukum@suse•com, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft•net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] usbnet: smsc95xx: align tx-buffer to word
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:53:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1538671996.3024.269.camel@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181002092645.1115-3-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>

On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 10:26 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> The tegra driver requires alignment of the buffer, so try and
> make this better by pushing the buffer start back to an word
> aligned address. At the worst this makes memcpy() easier as
> it is word aligned, at best it makes sure the usb can directly
> map the buffer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink•co.uk>
> [todo - make this configurable]
[...]

I don't think you need a separate kconfig symbol for this.  Aligning RX
buffers to words (or better, cache lines) is almost always a win, so
long as the CPU can handle misaligned fields in the network/transport
headers.  You can use #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to
check that.

It seems like NET_IP_ALIGN should be defined to 0 or 2 depending on
CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS, but NET_IP_ALIGN predates the
latter.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Software Developer                         Codethink Ltd
https://www.codethink.co.uk/                 Dale House, 35 Dale Street
                                     Manchester, M1 2HF, United Kingdom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-04 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-02  9:26 SMSC95XX driver updates Ben Dooks
2018-10-02  9:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] usbnet: smsc95xx: add kconfig for turbo mode Ben Dooks
2018-10-02 12:46   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-10-02  9:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] usbnet: smsc95xx: align tx-buffer to word Ben Dooks
2018-10-02 13:19   ` David Laight
2018-10-02 13:35     ` Ben Dooks
2018-10-02 16:56     ` [PATCH] usbnet: smsc95xx: simplify tx_fixup code Ben Dooks
2018-10-03 13:36       ` David Laight
2018-10-03 16:25         ` Ben Dooks
2018-10-05 21:24       ` David Miller
2018-10-06 11:27         ` Ben Dooks
2018-10-06 17:28           ` David Miller
2018-10-08  8:41         ` David Laight
2018-10-04 16:53   ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2018-10-02  9:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] usbnet: smsc95xx: check for csum being in last four bytes Ben Dooks
2018-10-02  9:45   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2018-10-04 16:55   ` Ben Hutchings
2018-10-02  9:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] usbnet: smsc95xx: fix rx packet alignment Ben Dooks

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