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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Small kernel-api addition
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:05:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18661.989517905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105101826290.11103-100000@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105101826290.11103-100000@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk>


moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk said:
+ * This macro should be used for accessing values larger in size than single
+ * bytes at locations that may be improperly aligned, e.g. retrieving a u16 
+ * value from a location not u16-aligned. 

I'd suggest s/that may be/that are expected to be/

If it's _expected_, then by all means use {get,put}_unaligned(). If it's 
normally going to be aligned, and it _may_ occasionally be otherwise, let 
the common case go fast, and let the fixup handle it otherwise.


--
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-10 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-10 17:29 [PATCH] Small kernel-api addition John Levon
2001-05-10 18:05 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-05-10 18:38   ` John Levon

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