Re: Oops with DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS and ocfs2, autofs4

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu May 03 2012 - 02:58:08 EST


On 05/02/2012 11:54 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> Can we do the trick of aligning the pointer and ignoring the start?
>> That would allow even architectures that don't have unaligned accesses
>> to work, too.
>
> Doing that would flub the hash computation.

I guess the shifts would be to expensive?

-hpa
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