Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon
had to walk into mine and say:
> (fanfair!)
(Darth Vader's imperial march theme)
> NFS Patch #8 for -current is now available. This patch fixes serious bugs
> w/ NFS/TCP. Probably not *all* the failure conditions, but hopefully
> most of them.
[...]
> Neither the 'de' nor the 'xl' ethernet drivers align the packet. The 'xl'
> driver conditionally aligns it for the alpha. Part of the patch fixes
> the 'xl' driver to unconditionally align the packet buffer in order to
> improve NFS performance. I could not do the same for the 'de' driver
> because I am unsure if the dec chipset can handle an unaligned start
> address.
