Re: [PULL] virtio/vhost: cross endian support

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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