[PATCH v3 2/2] net: have checksum routines accept unaligned data

[Thomas Monjalon]

20/09/2022 14:09, Mattias Rönnblom:
> On 2022-07-11 15:25, Olivier Matz wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 02:11:32PM +0200, Mattias Rönnblom wrote:
> >> __rte_raw_cksum() (used by rte_raw_cksum() among others) accessed its
> >> data through an uint16_t pointer, which allowed the compiler to assume
> >> the data was 16-bit aligned. This in turn would, with certain
> >> architectures and compiler flag combinations, result in code with SIMD
> >> load or store instructions with restrictions on data alignment.
> >>
> >> This patch keeps the old algorithm, but data is read using memcpy()
> >> instead of direct pointer access, forcing the compiler to always
> >> generate code that handles unaligned input. The __may_alias__ GCC
> >> attribute is no longer needed.
> >>
> >> The data on which the Internet checksum functions operates are almost
> >> always 16-bit aligned, but there are exceptions. In particular, the
> >> PDCP protocol header may (literally) have an odd size.
> >>
> >> Performance impact seems to range from none to a very slight
> >> regression.
> >>
> >> Bugzilla ID: 1035
> >> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > 
> > Fixes: 6006818cfb26 ("net: new checksum functions")
> > 
> >> ---
> >>
> >> v3:
> >>    * Use RTE_ALIGN_FLOOR() in the pointer arithmetic (Olivier Matz).
> >> v2:
> >>    * Simplified the odd-length conditional (Morten Brørup).
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> > 
> > Thank you!
> 
> Are there any plans to merge this patchset?

Applied, thanks.
Sorry for the delay.