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Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:17:27 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
djwong@...ibm.com, "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@...il.com>,
"Andreas Dilger" <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>,
"Sunil Mushran" <sunil.mushran@...cle.com>,
"Amir Goldstein" <amir73il@...il.com>,
"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Mingming Cao" <cmm@...ibm.com>,
"Joel Becker" <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
"linux-fsdevel" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, "Coly Li" <colyli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/16] ext4: Add metadata checksumming
>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> writes:
>> On Westmere and beyond it is possible to accelerate generic CRC
>> calculation using the PCLMULQDQ operation. There are many of our CRC
Andi> Faster than the lookup table? That's hard to believe.
Using PCLMULQDQ you can parallelize the calculation. You can even boost
hw CRC32C performance that way.
http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/323405.pdf
http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/323102.pdf
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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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