RE: ARM: Re: TCP LAST-ACK state broken in 2.4.17-pre2 [NEW DATA]

Mika.Liljeberg
2001-12-19T09:11:33Z

From: ext Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]:
> > Ahh, I see. There's a kernel exception handler that is
> > supposed to fix misaligned access? Hacky.
>
> Its a big performance win to only do fixups for the unusual cases.

I didn't mean "hacky" as a criticism and I can see the advantages (even
though "fast pathing" the TCP slow path seems a bit strange to me). But if
this isn't a hack (in the archaic sense of the word) I don't know what is.
:-)

Regards,

MikaL