Re: [PATCH] include/linux/etherdevice.h, kernel 2.6.14

[Andreas Schwab]

"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Just for curiosity, could you both benchmark this also:
>
> int is_zero_ether_addr0(const unsigned char *addr)
> {
>     return !(((unsigned long *)addr)[0] | ((unsigned short*)addr)[2]);
> }

It's probably slower when addr is unaligned, especially when unaligned
accesses need to be emulated.

Andreas.

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