On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 10:42 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 10:25 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > > At least for arm gcc 4.6.3, it emits different code > > for net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.o > > Then it looks like arm gcc or arm linux memset() should be improved.
Perhaps you can take that up with the gcc folk. I think it appropriate to improve the actual emitted code for the compiler I use. (it seems this code isn't fast-path anywhere though) > Tracking all memset(x, y, 6) and replace them by some custom version > seems not very generic to me, when something better can be done. There's the same argument for the ether_addr_equal and ether_addr_copy functions. iow: memcmp, memcpy too cheers, Joe -- 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/
