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 w
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 PO
From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:08:45 +0200
> Maybe we could at least define a 'struct in6_addr_k' for internal
> structures only, to speedup some parts of IPV6 stack.
I think it's better to put this on the backburner for now :-)
We could achieve all of this if w
From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:28:51 +0200
> On 64bit arches, we can speedup some IPV6 addresses compares, using 64 bits
> fields in struct in6_addr.
>
> I am not sure if this patch wont break some user ABI, maybe we should use
> some ifdef(KERNEL) ?
>
> This
David Miller a écrit :
From: Brian Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:07 -0400
The problem is that drivers don't necessarily align the address on the
correct boundary, so on some 64-bit arches this could be fatal. There's
ways around it since I did it in a previous life, b
From: Brian Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:07 -0400
> The problem is that drivers don't necessarily align the address on the
> correct boundary, so on some 64-bit arches this could be fatal. There's
> ways around it since I did it in a previous life, but you'd need to co
Eric Dumazet wrote:
On 64bit arches, we can speedup some IPV6 addresses compares, using 64 bits
fields in struct in6_addr.
diff --git a/include/linux/in6.h b/include/linux/in6.h
index 2a61c82..a4241a6 100644
--- a/include/linux/in6.h
+++ b/include/linux/in6.h
@@ -34,10 +34,12 @@ struct in6_ad
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:28:51 +0200), Eric
Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> On 64bit arches, we can speedup some IPV6 addresses compares, using 64 bits
> fields in struct in6_addr.
>
> I am not sure if this patch wont break some user ABI, maybe we should use
>
