On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 10:12 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > No, that was on purpose. If an arch doesn't have efficient unaligned > > accesses, then they should not use the optimization since it will > result > > in a lot of unaligned accesses :-) In which case they are better off > > falling back to the old byte-by-byte method. > > Not quite, it is only 1 of 4 accesses that uses unaligned and > that accesses is only unaligned 50% in average, it might still > be faster. We will never know now.
Why ? If you think it's a win, then it's easy to make a patch to turn it to __KERNEL__ and ask some people from ARM and MIPS or even sparc land for example to give it a spin. If it's indeed a win, then submit it to Linus and/or Andrew and there's no reason for it not to go in. I simply took a more conservative approach for post -rc4 Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
