On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 14:41 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Please don't use get_unaligned() or whatever to fix this, it's
> going to generate the byte-at-a-time accesses on sparc64
> which doesn't need it since the redzone will be aligned.
Yes, get_unaligned() would suck. But 'u64 __aligned__((BYTES_PER_WORD))'
as I suggested should result in a single 64-bit load on 64-bit
architectures, and two 32-bit loads on 32-bit architectures.
But I think the patch I just sent is a better option than that anyway.
--
dwmw2
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