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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: optimize ipv6 addresses compares
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:13:36 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:05:57 +0200

> [PATCH net-next v2]  ipv6: optimize ipv6 addresses compares
> 
> On 64 bit arches having efficient unaligned accesses (eg x86_64) we can
> use long words to reduce number of instructions for free.
> 
> Joe Perches suggested to change ipv6_masked_addr_cmp() to return a bool
> instead of 'int', to make sure ipv6_masked_addr_cmp() cannot be used
> in a sorting function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Looks good, will apply, thanks.