1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index 2308fbb4523a..fb6aa6070921 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
@@ -237,13 +237,29 @@ static inline bool is_etherdev_addr(const struct net_device *dev,
  * entry points.
  */
 
-static inline int compare_ether_header(const void *a, const void *b)
+static inline unsigned long compare_ether_header(const void *a, const void *b)
 {
+#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS) && BITS_PER_LONG == 64
+        unsigned long fold;
+
+        /*
+         * We want to compare 14 bytes:
+         *  [a0 ... a13] ^ [b0 ... b13]
+         * Use two long XOR, ORed together, with an overlap of two bytes.
+         *  [a0  a1  a2  a3  a4  a5  a6  a7 ] ^ [b0  b1  b2  b3  b4  b5  b6  b7 ] |
+         *  [a6  a7  a8  a9  a10 a11 a12 a13] ^ [b6  b7  b8  b9  b10 b11 b12 b13]
+         * This means the [a6 a7] ^ [b6 b7] part is done two times.
+        */
+        fold = *(unsigned long *)a ^ *(unsigned long *)b;
+        fold |= *(unsigned long *)(a + 6) ^ *(unsigned long *)(b + 6);
+        return fold;
+#else
         u32 *a32 = (u32 *)((u8 *)a + 2);
         u32 *b32 = (u32 *)((u8 *)b + 2);
 
         return (*(u16 *)a ^ *(u16 *)b) | (a32[0] ^ b32[0]) |
                (a32[1] ^ b32[1]) | (a32[2] ^ b32[2]);
+#endif
 }
 
 #endif  /* _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H */