From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, dsd@gentoo.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v5] introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:24:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207131865.10910.30.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206454302.16475.269.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080325_153049_310071_1A4FA1C2)
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On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:11 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> In many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to
> know at compile time whether the architecture can do unaligned
> accesses efficiently. This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol
> HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
> for that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures.
> Also add some documentation about alignment and networking, and
> especially one intended use of this symbol.
I haven't had comments on this last version, any objections to sending
it to akpm for inclusion? I would like to start building on it in the
wireless tree.
Also, what's the best way to get arch maintainers to note this and
evaluate whether they want to set the symbol or not?
johannes
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-20 14:34 [PATCH/RFC] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS " Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 14:39 ` Will Newton
2008-03-20 14:58 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 18:13 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-03-20 18:35 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 18:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v2] " Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 18:45 ` [PATCH/RFC v3] " Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 19:09 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-03-20 19:12 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 19:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-03-20 19:50 ` [PATCH/RFC v4] introduce HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS_SUPPORT " Johannes Berg
2008-03-21 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-20 21:13 ` [PATCH/RFC v2] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS " David Miller
2008-03-20 21:21 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 21:27 ` David Miller
2008-03-20 22:03 ` John W. Linville
2008-03-20 22:10 ` David Miller
2008-03-25 14:11 ` [PATCH/RFC v5] introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS " Johannes Berg
2008-04-02 10:24 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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