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

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:24:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Tons of CPU's have efficient char accesses but horrible unaligned word
> accesses. Some are even outright buggy (ie at least some ARM cores)
> and load crap. Others take a fault.

To be fair, that wasn't the ARM core.  That was the MEMC chip (roughly
equivalent to a northbridge).  Also, there's no need for Linux to care
about that any more, since we removed the arm26 port in July 2007.  As far
as I know, all arm32 cores have been coupled with memory controllers
that are functional.

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
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