Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:37:44PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > >  Not only sparc would be effected by this.  Using {get,put}_unaligned()
> > >  all over the networking would incur a penalty for many platforms, not
> > >  just sparc.
> > 
> > Really?  I'd have thought that get/put_unaligned would be a simple
> > load/store for architectures which wish to implement it in that manner.
> 
> Only on systems that have the "load upper/lower-unaligned"
> instructions.  On others it's a memmove().

It is at the moment, but why should it be?  Why can't it be implemented
as load-and-trap if that's the fastest way to do it?

(I can see this descending into get_unaligned_likely() and
get_aligned_unlikely() which i'd rather avoid ...)

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