Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code

[David S. Miller]

   Date:        Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:48:59 +0100
   From: antirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   The attached patch converts many occurences of '* 4' in the
   networking code (often used to convert in bytes the TCP data offset
   and the IP header len) to the faster '<< 2'.

The compiler does this for you, check the assembler it outputs.

Later,
David S. Miller
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