Re: Word-at-a-time dcache name accesses (was Re: .. anybody knowof any filesystems that depend on the exact VFS 'namehash'implementation?)

From: Ted Ts'o
Date: Fri Mar 02 2012 - 19:02:31 EST


Stupid question. Your patch requires unaligned accesses to not have a
heavy penalty, right? Wasn't it the case that some generations of x86
had pretty large penalties for aligned accesses? Is that something we
need to worry about?

- Ted
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