ARM network trouble after recent mbuf changes

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 08/27/13 00:38, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> I did some tests with a small program. Having in struct pkthdr 64 bit entities
> results in a 64 bit alignment when used in struct mbuf. Using __packed
> for struct mbuf, removes the padding.


Hi,

Maybe you could use __aligned(8) instead, and account for the extra 
padding on all platforms? Packed has other disadvantages on ARM 
platforms when accessing the structures, like that non-aligned access is 
possible, and that it is sometimes slower than aligned access.

--HPS