Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:17:00 -0500 | From | Gregory Haskins <> | Subject | Re: [Alacrityvm-devel] alacrityvm-next: clearly specify ioq endianness |
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On 12/8/09 3:57 PM, Ira W. Snyder wrote: > > This is a respin of the previous patch series against alacrityvm.git's > linux-next branch, to facilitate easier merging with the linux-next tree. > > The SHM_SIGNAL and IOQ code is meant to be used for communication channels > between systems with different bit widths and operating systems. > Conceivably, this could include systems with different endianness as well, > for example, using QEMU on x86 to emulate a powerpc. > > This patch series annotates all shared structures as little endian, and > fixes up all users. This means that there is no overhead in the most common > case, x86-on-x86. The byteswaps compile out. > > [RESEND: added LKML to CC per Greg Haskins' request]
Applied, thanks!
-Greg
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