Re: [patch 05/24] perfmon: X86 generic code (x86)

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, David Miller wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >   __attribute__ ((packed)); ???
> 
> Shouldn't be needed and this woule kill performance on RISC (every
> struct member is accessed with byte sized loads and shifts/masking).
> 
> We did this for the pfkey.h structures by accident, and I truly regret
> it.

Fair enough.

Thanks,

	tglx
 
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