netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] riscv: set HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED

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Message-ID: <CAFyWVaaAg9TuNVPbNmP0ongf6y2hmqFMiXJZHo8K84O4-BV0yw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:33:50 -0800
From:   Jim Wilson <jimw@...ive.com>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
Cc:     bjorn.topel@...il.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, David Lee <davidlee@...ive.com>,
        daniel@...earbox.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] riscv: set HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:21 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com> wrote:
> Jim, would you be opposed to something like this?

This looks OK to me.

>     +    builtin_define_with_int_value ("__riscv_tune_misaligned_load_cost",
>     +                                   riscv_tune_info->slow_unaligned_access ? 1024 : 1);
>     +    builtin_define_with_int_value ("__riscv_tune_misaligned_store_cost",
>     +                                   riscv_tune_info->slow_unaligned_access ? 1024 : 1);

It would be nice to have a better way to compute these values, maybe
an extra field in the tune structure, but we can always worry about
that later when we need it.

Jim