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From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2] net/vxlan: Avoid unaligned access in
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:12:24 -0700
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:53:31AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 09:14 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think it's the opposite. Even on x86 compiler will use byte loads.
> 
> Unless you tweaked gcc, it should still use word loads on x86.

> checked that on x86-64 actually. Also clearly visible here:

ahh. ok. good to know. thanks guys!