On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 07:48 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 14:49 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote: > > > Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal > > > to instead of memcmp. > [] > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c > [] > > > @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, > > > struct net_device *dev) > > > > > > if(*eth->h_dest&1) > > > { > > > - if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0) > > > + if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast)) > > > skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST; > > > else > > > skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST; > > > > What about : > > > > if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) { > > if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast)) > > skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST; > > else > > skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST; > > } > > That is better though I wonder how many systems are > still using laplink via parallel null-printer cables. > > No matter, better is better. > > The same optimization using ether_addr_equal_64bits > may be possible to do in other places given other > structs too. > > Perhaps it's a possible spatch/coccinelle conversion, > > I don't know spatch well enough to know if a > mechanism to check if structure members have other > fields that follow them in the structure or if the > structure member is an array of a minimum size. > > Maybe Julia does. (cc'd)
I'm not sure to competely understand the issues. Could you explain more? thanks, julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/