From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP Segmentation Offloading (TSO)
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 01:09:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020905010910.A14236@kushida.apsleyroad.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031181438.3017.125.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:17:18AM +0100
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 23:39, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > While it would work, this sequence is overkill. Unless I'm mistaken, the
> > only property of bswap which is used in this case is that it swaps even
> > and odd bytes, which can be done by a simple "roll $8,%eax" (or rorl).
>
> bswap is a 32bit swap.
Yes it's different from the roll $8, but if all you need is to swap odd
and even bytes for the IP checksum, either instruction is fine.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-05 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-02 17:45 Feldman, Scott
2002-09-02 18:58 ` kuznet
2002-09-03 7:42 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-09-03 7:51 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-03 11:27 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-09-03 11:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-03 12:21 ` kuznet
2002-09-03 13:03 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-09-03 13:19 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-09-03 13:22 ` kuznet
2002-09-03 21:05 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-03 21:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 1:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-04 1:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 22:39 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-09-04 22:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-05 2:13 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-09-05 2:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-05 10:28 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-09-05 11:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-09-05 13:21 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-09-05 13:17 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-08 4:20 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-09-08 4:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-04 23:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-05 0:09 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2002-09-02 19:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-02 23:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-03 4:58 ` Jordi Ros
2002-09-03 6:52 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-03 7:26 ` Jordi Ros
2002-09-03 7:39 ` David S. Miller
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2002-09-03 9:05 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-03 10:00 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-03 10:10 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-03 10:09 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-03 17:50 Feldman, Scott
2002-09-03 18:09 Manfred Spraul
2002-09-03 23:08 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
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