On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 12:03:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Doing a unconditional byte swap is faster and simpler than the crazy > > conditionals. > > Unconditional endianness not only makes for simpler and faster code, > it also ends up being easier to debug and add things like type > annotations for sparse. > > Linus At least this last one is well covered by these patches: this uses separate sparse types so all accesses are statically verified by sparse to use the correct accessor. -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
