Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jul 2015 12:02:50 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PULL] virtio/vhost: cross endian support | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote: > virtio/vhost: cross endian support
Ugh. Does this really have to be dynamic?
Can't virtio do the sane thing, and just use a _fixed_ endianness?
Doing a unconditional byte swap is faster and simpler than the crazy conditionals. That's true regardless of endianness, but gets to be even more so if the fixed endianness is little-endian, since BE is not-so-slowly fading from the world.
Linus
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