Re: [RFC, PATCH] IPV6 : add 64 bits components in struct in6_addr to speedup ipv6_addr_equal() & ipv6_addr_any()
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <hidden>
Date: 2007-04-30 16:09:24
In article [ref] (at Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:28:51 +0200), Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] says:
On 64bit arches, we can speedup some IPV6 addresses compares, using 64 bits fields in struct in6_addr. I am not sure if this patch wont break some user ABI, maybe we should use some ifdef(KERNEL) ?
AFAIK, it did and I guess it will. So, please do not do this even though it is enclosed with ifdef(__KERNEL__), so far, at least, for 2.6.22. --yoshfuji