netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: optimize ipv6 addresses compares

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:02:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, joe@...ches.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: optimize ipv6 addresses compares

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:49:18 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> On 64 bit arches having efficient unaligned accesses (eg x86_64) we can
> use long words to reduce number of instructions for free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

Maybe we can even be sure that they are 64-bit aligned too?

If there's an embedded u64 in the in6_addr union, they really should
be.

It can't even be an issue in the protocol headers, because in the
socket demux we read the two 32-bit ipv4 addresses in the packet
header as one 64-bit chunk already.
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