Network adapter for headers alignment.

摘要

A computing system (10) is connected to a network (30). The computing system (10) includes a network adapter (12) and a main memory (11) . The network adapter (12) receives from the network (30) a network packet (110) having a plurality of headers. The network adapter (12) inserts at least one pad byte (115, 135) within one of the plurality of headers to cause the plurality of headers in the network packet (110) to be aligned along predetermined multi-byte boundaries. For example, the multi-byte boundaries are four-byte boundaries. After inserting the at least one pad byte (115, 135), the network adapter (12) forwards the network packet (110) to the main memory (11).