netdev - Re: [PATCH 10/14] ipv4: Use 32-bit loads for ID and length in GRO

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 20:00:36 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] ipv4: Use 32-bit loads for ID and length in GRO

Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> writes:

> ipv4: Use 32-bit loads for ID and length in GRO
>
> This patch optimises the IPv4 GRO code by using 32-bit loads
> (instead of 16-bit ones) on the ID and length checks in the receive
> function.

On what architecture is that faster?

At least on x86 they should be the same performance, except that
the 16bit one is one byte larger, but that shouldn't make a difference.

-Andi

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