Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932992AbcLIL05 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2016 06:26:57 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35006 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932393AbcLIL04 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2016 06:26:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 12:26:50 +0100 From: Jiri Benc To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Netdev , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, LKML , WireGuard mailing list Subject: Re: Misalignment, MIPS, and ip_hdr(skb)->version Message-ID: <20161209122650.36a1a8e8@griffin> In-Reply-To: <87vauvhwdu.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net> References: <095cac5b-b757-6f4a-e699-8eedf9ed7221@stressinduktion.org> <87vauvhwdu.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]); Fri, 09 Dec 2016 11:26:55 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 499 Lines: 11 On Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:34:21 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > fwiw, i'm not convinced that "most protocols of the IETF follow this > mantra". we've had multiple discussions in different protocol groups > about shaving or bloating by a few bytes here or there in different > protocols, and i don't think anyone has brought up memory alignment as > an argument in any of the discussions i've followed. Which is sad. One would expect that this would be well understood for decades already. Jiri