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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:30:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050606133022.GA10566@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050606124043.GA625@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:40:43PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 01:09:14PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > > #if (PAGE_SHIFT > 16) || (BITS_PER_LONG > 32)
> > 
> > what is the BITS_PER_LONG check for?
> 
> These structures are normally used in arrays.  On a 64-bit machine
> the alignment requirement means that the 16-bit version will be
> padded to have the same length as the 32-bit version.  Since 32-bit
> access is usually faster we might as well get it for free.

At this point it might be easiest to just say the architecture must
declare the type in asm/types.h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-06 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-03 23:46 [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag Herbert Xu
2005-06-04  0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-04  0:42   ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04  4:39     ` James Morris
2005-06-04  4:51       ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04  5:23         ` James Morris
2005-06-04  5:33           ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 10:00     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-04  9:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-04  9:58   ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 10:17     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-04 10:22       ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 10:29         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-04 10:32           ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 10:40             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-06 22:36             ` David S. Miller
2005-06-04 11:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-04 11:26   ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 11:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-06 11:59       ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 12:09         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-06 12:40           ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 13:30             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-06-06 22:46             ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 23:04               ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 23:09                 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 23:14                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 23:18                     ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 23:20                       ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 23:05               ` Jeff Garzik

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