From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL] virtio/vhost: cross endian support
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 08:12:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150702080916-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxNfhQv2G6ak4b1A7Tb7zn9E7xfq7N+Pak5RW7VPSb=Vw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 12:03:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Doing a unconditional byte swap is faster and simpler than the crazy
> > conditionals.
>
> Unconditional endianness not only makes for simpler and faster code,
> it also ends up being easier to debug and add things like type
> annotations for sparse.
>
> Linus
At least this last one is well covered by these patches: this uses
separate sparse types so all accesses are statically verified by sparse
to use the correct accessor.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-02 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20150701113150-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
2015-07-01 19:02 ` [PULL] virtio/vhost: cross endian support Linus Torvalds
2015-07-01 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-02 6:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-07-02 6:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-02 9:12 ` Greg Kurz
2015-07-02 9:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-07 16:36 ` Thomas Huth
[not found] ` <20150707183653.462b5df0@thh440s>
2015-07-07 16:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-09 7:49 ` [PATCH] KVM: Add Kconfig option to signal cross-endian guests Thomas Huth
[not found] ` <1436428145-29823-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
2015-07-09 9:48 ` Laurent Vivier
2015-07-09 10:02 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-07-09 12:21 ` Cornelia Huck
[not found] ` <559E435E.9050608@redhat.com>
2015-07-09 12:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-09 13:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-09 18:59 ` Thomas Huth
2015-07-13 9:24 ` Greg Kurz
2015-07-03 7:59 ` [PULL] virtio/vhost: cross endian support Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20150703095637-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
2015-07-03 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-01 9:31 Michael S. Tsirkin
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