linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] poly1305: generic C can be faster on chips with slow unaligned access

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Message-ID: <20161102200959.GA23297@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Thu, 3 Nov 2016 04:09:59 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Martin Willi <martin@...ongswan.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] poly1305: generic C can be faster on chips with slow
 unaligned access

On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 06:58:10PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On MIPS chips commonly found in inexpensive routers, this makes a big
> difference in performance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>

Can you give some numbers please? What about other architectures
that your patch impacts?

Thanks,
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