From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] IPV6 : add 64 bits components in struct in6_addr to speedup ipv6_addr_equal() & ipv6_addr_any()
Date: 30 Apr 2007 23:34:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73bqh5zgv7.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430.121029.21927349.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
>
> Unfortunately, as mentioned elsewhere, we're only able to assume
> 32-bit alignment of ipv6 packet headers and that isn't likely to
> change any time soon.
On x86 it would be fine at least -- unaligned access is cheap. I believe
the same is true for POWER4/5/s390x. Should it be made conditional perhaps?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-30 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-30 14:28 [RFC, PATCH] IPV6 : add 64 bits components in struct in6_addr to speedup ipv6_addr_equal() & ipv6_addr_any() Eric Dumazet
2007-04-30 16:09 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-04-30 16:27 ` Brian Haley
2007-04-30 18:59 ` David Miller
2007-04-30 19:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-30 19:22 ` David Miller
2007-04-30 19:10 ` David Miller
2007-04-30 21:34 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-30 20:37 ` David Miller
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