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

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Date:	Tue, 5 Aug 2008 01:13:16 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>, 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, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:10:17AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> I don't see why you couldn't do that for the crypto API too
> if you wanted to.  That way it would benefit all crypto users
> rather than just the crc32c (note the extra c) users.

Anyway, the point here is the crc32c is nothing special.  It's
just one out of many algorithms that has/will have hardware
acceleration support.

Rather than doing ad-hoc implementations and optimising that
whenever such a thing pops up, let's spend our effort in creating
a common platform that can be reused.

Cheers,
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