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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: move inet_dport/inet_num in sock_common
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:31:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354073514.8918.22.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354072351.2701.41.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 03:12 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 18:23 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > OK, so it's an and not an or.  Duh.
> [...]
> 
> The way to combine these sorts of comparisons is along the lines of:
> 
> (((left->a ^ right->a) |
>   (left->b ^ right->b) |
>   ...) == 0)
> 
> But when there are big-endian types involved, sparse is likely to
> complain about combining them.

I believe there's only the 2 items that could be combined
for cacheline purposes so using 2 logical tests with AND
seems more readable.  Maybe a single combined test would
be faster.  I don't have equipment at hand to test it.

If you prefer I supposed it could be converted.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27 15:06 [PATCH net-next] net: move inet_dport/inet_num in sock_common Eric Dumazet
2012-11-27 17:23 ` Joe Perches
2012-11-27 21:24   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-28  2:23     ` Joe Perches
2012-11-28  3:12       ` Ben Hutchings
2012-11-28  3:31         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-11-28  3:55           ` Ben Hutchings
2012-11-28  4:11       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-28 11:27         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-28 12:56           ` [PATCH v2 " Eric Dumazet
2012-11-28 16:48             ` David Miller
2012-11-28 17:02               ` David Miller
2012-11-28 17:18                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-28 18:20             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-27 19:05 ` [PATCH " Ben Hutchings
2012-11-27 21:23   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-28  3:13     ` Eric Dumazet

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