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Subject: Re: [PATCH] eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits()
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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:45:54 -0800 (PST)
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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:19:17 +0100

> This patch implements a compare_ether_addr_64bits() function, that
> handles the case of x86 cpus, but might be used on other arches as
> well, if their potential misaligned long word reads are not
> expensive.

We have a test for this, HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS

Please use that instead of CONFIG_X86 and I'll apply this
to net-next-2.6

Thanks!