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

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 07:26:49 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
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

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:00:36PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> 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.

It shrunk the code by more than a byte, at least with some versions
of gcc on x86-64.

Yes some of these patches might seem a tad trivial, but it does add
up.

Cheers,
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