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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] ns83820 0.17 (Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:56:11 +0100
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On March 14, 2002 09:37 pm, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> > 4) Do you really mean to allocate memory for "REAL_RX_BUF_SIZE + 16"? 
> >  Why not plain old REAL_RX_BUF_SIZE?
> 
> The +16 is for alignment (just like the comment says).  The hardware 
> requires that rx buffers be 64 bit aligned.

Nit: that would be REAL_RX_BUF_SIZE + 15.

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Daniel
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