netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethernet: optimize memcpy and memset

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Message-Id: <20070824.223556.40827066.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:35:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethernet: optimize memcpy and memset

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:29:50 -0700

> The ethernet header management only needs to handle a fixed
> size address (6 bytes). If the memcpy/memset are changed to
> be passed a constant length, then compiler can optimize for
> this case (and if it is smart eliminate string instructions).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied.
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