Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-36,: Re: [patch] longstanding chksum patch

# Re: [patch] longstanding chksum patch

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:53:54 +0100 (BST)

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> I _HATE_ dirty hacks which gives some more speed and that loses a clean
> interface. All string functions works careless about the alignment of the
> buffers, and the same should be done by the chksum routine. I don't want
> special cases just to get some more speed. I perfectly know that currently
> all callers are using 32bit aligned buffers, that's not my point at all.

Well since the copy and the checksum code are the most critical paths in
the entire networking stack - tough.

There are reasons people hand tuned that code path.

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