linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve sequence number generation.

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Message-ID: <20110821040244.GA21405@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:02:45 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
	w@....eu, dan@...para.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mpm@...enic.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve sequence number generation.

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:27:53PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> Here's a random thought --- it won't help on anything other than
> modern x86's, but who's to say we have to use the same algorithm on
> all platforms?  Does the AES-NI facility provide enough of a speedup
> that it's worth using it instead of MD5, at least on modern x86
> systems which have this support?

It is fast but it also touches SSE state.

Cheers,
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