[PATCH 1/2] net: ethernet address comparison optimizations

Konstantin Ananyev konstantin.ananyev at huawei.com
Fri Jan 30 17:31:19 CET 2026



> >
> > > +__rte_pure
> > >  static inline int rte_is_same_ether_addr(const struct rte_ether_addr *ea1,
> > >  				     const struct rte_ether_addr *ea2)
> > >  {
> > > +#if !defined(RTE_ARCH_STRICT_ALIGN)
> > > +	return ((((const unaligned_uint32_t *)ea1)[0] ^ ((const
> unaligned_uint32_t *)ea2)[0]) |
> > > +			(((const uint16_t *)ea1)[2] ^ ((const uint16_t *)ea2)[2]))
> == 0;
> > > +#else
> > >  	const uint16_t *w1 = (const uint16_t *)ea1;
> > >  	const uint16_t *w2 = (const uint16_t *)ea2;
> > >
> > >  	return ((w1[0] ^ w2[0]) | (w1[1] ^ w2[1]) | (w1[2] ^ w2[2])) == 0;
> > > +#endif
> > >  }
> > >
> >
> > FYI in Linux:
> >
> > static inline bool ether_addr_equal(const u8 *addr1, const u8 *addr2)
> > {
> > #if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
> > 	u32 fold = ((*(const u32 *)addr1) ^ (*(const u32 *)addr2)) |
> > 		   ((*(const u16 *)(addr1 + 4)) ^ (*(const u16 *)(addr2 + 4)));
> >
> > 	return fold == 0;
> > #else
> > 	const u16 *a = (const u16 *)addr1;
> > 	const u16 *b = (const u16 *)addr2;
> >
> > 	return ((a[0] ^ b[0]) | (a[1] ^ b[1]) | (a[2] ^ b[2])) == 0;
> > #endif
> > }
> >
> > In FreeBSD kernel, there is no helper they just use memcmp
> 
> +1 for just memcmp :-)

Same thoughts :)


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