From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Apr 2007 23:34:20 +0200
> David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
We have that conditional, it's callet {get,put}_unaligned() but it's
better to fix the infrastructure so that conditionalization isn't
even needed.
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