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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	balajirrao@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BTRFS: Transpose parent_objectid and parent_gen in struct btrfs_fid
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:38:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30514.1237397915@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237396909.27829.102.camel@macbook.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> But this struct is packed anyway -- we're not changing much on the wire;
> it's just a case of how efficient it is to load that single uint64_t
> from an unaligned location. Is that _really_ something we're ever going
> to notice?

If the CPU doing the load/store throws a misalignment exception or just
ignores the instruction because it's misaligned, it might make for interesting
debugging.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-18 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-18 16:16 [PATCH] BTRFS: Transpose parent_objectid and parent_gen in struct btrfs_fid David Howells
2009-03-18 17:00 ` Chris Mason
2009-03-18 17:05   ` David Howells
2009-03-18 17:21     ` David Woodhouse
2009-03-18 17:38       ` David Howells [this message]
2009-03-18 17:46         ` David Woodhouse

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