Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:11:21 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: When should we use likely() / unlikely() / get_unaligned() ? |
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On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:00:47 +1100 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> Um, we do? I thought it was compulsory in the kernel, otherwise > networking breaks on packets w/ wierd hardware headers.
That's right, for the old old ARMs they've always been broken with certain types of encapsulations due to this. Even just feed them certain kinds of odd TCP/IP option sequences and watch the packet handling work on corrupted header data on such older ARMs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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