Re: TCP Segmentation Offloading (TSO)

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Tue, 03 Sep 2002 04:29:09 -0700 (PDT)


From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:27:59 +1000 (EST)

I notice though that if the length is odd, we (PPC) put the last byte
in the left-hand (most significant) byte of a 16-bit halfword, with
zero in the other byte, and add it in, whereas i386 puts the last byte
in the least-significant position.

What PPC does is correct for big endian.
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