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

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Date:   Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:43:14 -0800 (PST)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
To:     Jim Wilson <jimw@...ive.com>
CC:     bjorn.topel@...il.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, davidlee@...ive.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject:     Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] riscv: set HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:33:50 PST (-0800), Jim Wilson wrote:
> 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.

OK, thanks.  I'll send some patches around :)

>
>>     +    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.

I agree.  I just went and designed the external interface first and hid the 
ugliness here.  The internal interfaces are easier to change :)