From: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3.5 10/19] mac8011: slight optimization of addr compare
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:40:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52CB7736.701@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389021111.5891.21.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
On 2014/1/6 23:11, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 19:40 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> Use the possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
>> to instead of memcmp.
>
> This is a slow-path, I don't think that's really worth it. It kinda
> makes sense, but relies on the struct mac_address allocation for
> alignment and the fact that there are no other members in that struct,
> so it seems to me that this ought to also add some alignment attributes?
>
> johannes
>
>
Yes, I had to say that it is really a slight optimization.And I am sure the address in the struct
is alignment, otherwise I have to use the ether_addr_equal_unaligned().
Regards
Ding
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-26 11:40 [PATCH v3.5 10/19] mac8011: slight optimization of addr compare Ding Tianhong
2014-01-06 15:11 ` Johannes Berg
2014-01-07 3:40 ` Ding Tianhong [this message]
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