netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next v4] openvswitch: enable NSH support

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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:27:56 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Ben Pfaff' <blp@....org>,
        Jan Scheurich <jan.scheurich@...csson.com>
CC:     Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>, "Yang, Yi" <yi.y.yang@...el.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        "e@...g.me" <e@...g.me>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next v4] openvswitch: enable NSH support

From: Ben Pfaff
> Sent: 22 August 2017 18:35
...
> We solved the alignment problem in OVS userspace a different way, by
> defining our versions of the network protocol headers so that they only
> need 16-bit alignment.  In turn, we did that by defining a
> ovs_16aligned_be32 type as a pair of be16s and ovs_16aligned_be64 as
> four be16s, and using helper functions for reads and writes.
...

If you add __attribute__((aligned(2))) to the 32bit and 64bit structure
members then gcc will do the loads and shifts for you.

	David