[openib-general][PATCH 1 of 3] repost: Client Reregister support for kernel space

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed May 31 07:36:46 PDT 2006


    Leonid> I just moved the structure from ipath_mad.c to ib_smi.h.
    Leonid> I see no special reason to have '__attribute__ ((packed))'
    Leonid> here.  Isn't it a good style to have a structure packed
    Leonid> when it is sent over wire?

No, since it leads to gcc generating much worse code on architectures
like ia64.

 - R.



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