On 2013/12/23 16:28, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 13:09 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> I use the recently added and possibly more efficient
>> ether_addr_equal_unaligned to instead of memcmp for slight
>> optimization.
>
> Hi again.
>
> These are the sorts of conversions that could be
> either ether_addr_equal or ether_addr_equal_unaligned
> depending on the existing alignment of the addresses
> being compared.
>
> For instance, in patch 21:
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
> []
> @@ -131,12 +131,13 @@ static inline struct pppoe_net *pppoe_pernet(struct net
> *net)
>
> static inline int cmp_2_addr(struct pppoe_addr *a, struct pppoe_addr *b)
> {
> - return a->sid == b->sid && !memcmp(a->remote, b->remote, ETH_ALEN);
> + return a->sid == b->sid && ether_addr_equal_unaligned(a->remote,
> + ther b->remote);
> ---
>
> This could be ether_addr_equal instead as remote is after a be16
> and so remote is aligned to a u16.
>
> include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h:typedef __be16 sid_t;
> []
> include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h:struct pppoe_addr {
> include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h- sid_t sid; /*
> Session identifier */
> include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h- unsigned char remote[ETH_ALEN]; /*
> Remote address */
> include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h- char dev[IFNAMSIZ]; /*
> Local device to use */
> include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h-};
>
> It's of course possible to convert the appropriate
> ether_addr_equal_unaligned uses to ether_addr_equal later.
>
>
Yes, I need to review the changes more clearly and then resend them, thanks.
Regards
Ding
>
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