From: ext Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]:
> > Ahh, I see. There's a kernel exception handler that is
> > supposed to fix misaligned access? Hacky.
>
> Its a big performance win to only do fixups for the unusual cases.
I didn't mean "hacky" as a criticism and I can see the advantages (even
though "fast pathing" the TCP slow path seems a bit strange to me). But if
this isn't a hack (in the archaic sense of the word) I don't know what is.
:-)
Regards,
MikaL
-
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/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Dec 23 2001 - 21:00:18 EST