netdev - Re: [PATCH] MIPS checksum fix

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Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:15:38 +0100 (BST)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
cc:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>, u1@...ran.org,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS checksum fix

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> +	beqz	t7, 1f			/* odd buffer alignment? */
> +	 lui	v1, 0x00ff

 Well, .set reorder to move something from before the branch would have 
been a little bit better for the common aligned case. ;)  There is nothing 
special about branch delay slots in the whole epilogue, so one from just 
before the return might simply be relocated here.

  Maciej
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