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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 12:03:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Doing a unconditional byte swap is faster and simpler than the crazy
> > conditionals.
> 
> Unconditional endianness not only makes for simpler and faster code,
> it also ends up being easier to debug and add things like type
> annotations for sparse.
> 
>                 Linus

At least this last one is well covered by these patches: this uses
separate sparse types so all accesses are statically verified by sparse
to use the correct accessor.

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