netdev - Re: [PATCH v3.5 00/19] slight optimization of addr compare for some modules

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Date:	Thu, 26 Dec 2013 13:32:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dingtianhong@...wei.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	joe@...ches.com, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
	antonio@...hcoding.com, sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3.5 00/19] slight optimization of addr compare for
 some modules

From: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:40:12 +0800

> Joe Perches add ether_addr_equal_unaligned to test if
> possibly unaligned to u16 Ethernet addresses are equal.
> 
> If CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set, this uses
> the slightly faster generic routine ether_addr_equal,
> otherwise this uses memcmp.
> 
> So I use the recently added and possibly more efficient
> ether_addr_equal_unaligned to instead of memcmp for slight
> optimization.

Series applied, thanks.
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