Re: [net-next PATCH 0/5] Add eth_proto_is_802_3 to provide improved means of checking Ethertype

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 14:33:42 -0700

> This patch series implements and makes use of eth_proto_is_802_3().  The
> idea behind the function is to provide an optimized means of testing to
> determine if a given Ethertype value is a length or 802.3 protocol number.
> The standard path for this was to use ntohs(proto) and then perform a
> comparison.  This adds a slight cost as it usually requires either a 16b
> rotate or byte swap which can cost 1 cycle or more depending on the
> processor.
> 
> I had previously addressed this for eth_type_trans, however in doing so I had
> overlooked checking with sparse and had introduced a couple sparse warnings.
> The first patch in this series fixes those sparse warnings as well as does
> some additional optimization for big endian systems.  In addition it pushes
> the code out into a separate function which can then be used in the other
> patches to reduce the instruction count/processing time in those functions
> as well.

Series applied, thanks!