Re: [kmip] Groups - Sun 32-bit Binary Alignment Proposal,v2 (Sun 32-bit Binary Alignment Proposal.pdf) uploaded

[Matt Ball <Matthew.Ball@Sun.COM>]

Glen Jaquette wrote:

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Matt,
        Your proposed changes do make the TTLV protocol 4 byte aligned.  I would just observe that with one additional constraint, i.e. if you forced the Value field to be 4 + N*8 bytes long, where N is a whole number, then it would also be 8-byte alighted for 64-bit processing.

Hi Glen,

That's true.  However, if we want to go for full 64-bit support, I'd prefer that we rearrange the layout so that the Tag, Type, and Length fields are within one 64-bit word.  That way the Value field could just be a simple multiple of 8 bytes, instead of 4 plus a multiple of 8.  Combining Tag and Type into one field would probably be more efficient because generally a particular Tag only has one supported Type, so the whole thing just becomes a 32-bit 'Super Tag' that can be quickly referenced in a switch statement or lookup table.

If we're interested in doing 64-bits 'right' instead of 'fast', I'd recommend we follow the sketch proposal I sent to Jon Callas yesterday.  That said, the Sun requirement is simply for optimal processing on 32-bit ARM processors, so we would approve any of these approaches.

Cheers,
-Matt

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