Re: [PATCH v4] poly1305: generic C can be faster on chips with slow unaligned access

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Mon Nov 07 2016 - 15:47:17 EST


On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:47:09PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> By using the unaligned access helpers, we drastically improve
> performance on small MIPS routers that have to go through the exception
> fix-up handler for these unaligned accesses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Nit: the subject line is a little unclear about what was changed.
"make generic C faster on chips with slow unaligned access" would be better.