netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Implement fast csum_partial for x86

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Date:	Tue, 5 Jan 2016 00:51:37 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Implement fast csum_partial for x86_64

On 05.01.2016 00:34, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 15:22 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
>> \...
>>> +402: /* Length 2, align is 1, 3, or 5 */
>>> +     movb    (%rdi), %al
>>> +     movb    1(%rdi), %ah
>>
>> Looks like a movw (%rdi),%ax
>>
> Wouldn't that be an unaligned access?

Based on my knowledge (based on arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h) the 
x86 architecture (and this code is specific for x86) can handle 
unaligned access on its own.

Bye,
Hannes

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