On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 08:20:28AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:46:16 +0000 > Morten Brørup <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +__rte_pure > > static inline int rte_is_same_ether_addr(const struct rte_ether_addr *ea1, > > const struct rte_ether_addr *ea2) > > { > > +#if !defined(RTE_ARCH_STRICT_ALIGN) > > + return ((((const unaligned_uint32_t *)ea1)[0] ^ ((const > > unaligned_uint32_t *)ea2)[0]) | > > + (((const uint16_t *)ea1)[2] ^ ((const uint16_t > > *)ea2)[2])) == 0; > > +#else > > const uint16_t *w1 = (const uint16_t *)ea1; > > const uint16_t *w2 = (const uint16_t *)ea2; > > > > return ((w1[0] ^ w2[0]) | (w1[1] ^ w2[1]) | (w1[2] ^ w2[2])) == 0; > > +#endif > > } > > > > FYI in Linux: > > static inline bool ether_addr_equal(const u8 *addr1, const u8 *addr2) > { > #if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS) > u32 fold = ((*(const u32 *)addr1) ^ (*(const u32 *)addr2)) | > ((*(const u16 *)(addr1 + 4)) ^ (*(const u16 *)(addr2 + 4))); > > return fold == 0; > #else > const u16 *a = (const u16 *)addr1; > const u16 *b = (const u16 *)addr2; > > return ((a[0] ^ b[0]) | (a[1] ^ b[1]) | (a[2] ^ b[2])) == 0; > #endif > } > > In FreeBSD kernel, there is no helper they just use memcmp
+1 for just memcmp :-)
