Re: [PATCH v2] fix sign extension with 1.5TB usb-storage LBD=y

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:32:59AM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> These are actually aligned access it might be worth sacrificing a cast
> to be32/64 for sake of speed.

"for sake of speed"?  How often do you think we ask a device how large
it is?  How much overhead do you think is incurred by the unaligned code
if the data happens to be aligned?

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