From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>,
u1@terran.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: MIPS checksum bug
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:07:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080918220734.GA19222@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0809171917580.17103@cliff.in.clinika.pl>
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:21:23PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > > Hmm, what's the purpose of doing the fold in csum_partial() then?
> >
> > Well, maybe odd-byte handling requires 16-bit holded values?
>
> It should be enough to swap odd and even bytes in the word in the
> unaligned path. Though perhaps extra code to do masking would make it no
> shorter/faster than what we have now; however the aligned path would
> benefit. Hmm...
Which is a truely weird operation - but MIPS R2 happens to have a wonderful
instruction for this operation, WSBH / DSBH.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-18 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-09-17 5:15 ` MIPS checksum bug Bryan Phillippe
2008-09-17 10:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-17 13:23 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-17 14:46 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-17 15:27 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-17 18:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-18 22:07 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2008-09-19 10:12 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-19 11:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-19 11:47 ` [PATCH] MIPS checksum fix Ralf Baechle
2008-09-19 12:07 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-19 12:15 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-19 14:09 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-19 15:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-20 15:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-23 21:52 ` Bryan Phillippe
2008-09-23 22:06 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-29 15:28 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-19 12:26 ` MIPS checksum bug Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-19 16:04 ` Bryan Phillippe
2008-09-17 22:52 ` Bryan Phillippe
2008-09-18 16:17 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-19 1:14 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-19 15:43 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-19 16:09 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-19 16:35 ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-09-19 23:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-20 0:13 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-20 13:45 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-18 4:43 ` Bryan Phillippe
2008-09-18 10:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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