On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 11:21 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: > >> > Indeed. One would seem to be the buffer list itself, which also needs to >> > fit within a 40-bit mask with 256 alignment (rxq->bd), the rb_stts needs >> > 16-byte alignment which probably is always satisfied, but I'm not sure, >> > you'll need to research the alignment guarantees. >> >> Note these are allocated using persistent calls and not kmalloc I hope >> at least does are page alignment. > > Good point. On powerpc at least that uses alloc_pages internally. Not sure if if wouldn't be better just work directly with pages in RX? Tomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
