linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API.

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Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:06:05 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	chris.mason@...cle.com (Chris Mason), herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, austin_zhang@...ux.intel.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate	CRC32c
 algorithm by new crypto API.

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:45:34 +0800
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On the other hand, one of the advantages of doing it through the
> crypto API is that this kind of selection is useful for quite a
> few operations, e.g., xor or even memcpy.

well you still have that indirect function call

for libcrc32 we could alternatives() that...


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