Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 04:11:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 04:11:24 -0500 Received: from mgw-x2.nokia.com ([131.228.20.22]:19616 "EHLO mgw-x2.nokia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 04:11:16 -0500 Message-ID: From: Mika.Liljeberg@nokia.com To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Mika.Liljeberg@welho.com Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, davem@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sarolaht@cs.helsinki.fi, rmk@arm.linux.ORG.UK Subject: RE: ARM: Re: TCP LAST-ACK state broken in 2.4.17-pre2 [NEW DATA] Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:10:54 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2652.78) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: ext Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]: > > Ahh, I see. There's a kernel exception handler that is > > supposed to fix misaligned access? Hacky. > > Its a big performance win to only do fixups for the unusual cases. I didn't mean "hacky" as a criticism and I can see the advantages (even though "fast pathing" the TCP slow path seems a bit strange to me). But if this isn't a hack (in the archaic sense of the word) I don't know what is. :-) Regards, MikaL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/