Re: [PATCH] treewide: Update sha_transform

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:41 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Eliminate possible sha_transform unaligned accesses to data by copying
> > data to an aligned __u32 array if necessary.
> This is wrong. Not only does it double the stack space, when I tried
> it for git it just made things slower. So don't do it.

Maybe the aligned copy should be in an
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS block.

Maybe Mandeep could test aligned/unaligned speeds
for his board?

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