linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UDPCP Communication Protocol

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Message-ID: <20101231094634.5b96e0d1@s6510>
Date:	Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:46:34 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	stefani@...bold.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UDPCP Communication Protocol

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:29:45 +0100
stefani@...bold.net wrote:

> +struct __attribute__ ((packed)) udpcphdr {
> +	struct udphdr udphdr;
> +	__be32 chksum;
> +	__be16 msginfo;
> +	u8 fragamount;
> +	u8 fragnum;
> +	__be16 msgid;
> +	__be16 length;
> +};

Adding (unnecessary) packed attribute will make access slow on
some architectures. For arch that can't do unaligned access, the
compiler ends up doing byte access for each element.
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