linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations.

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Date:   Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:00:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
To:     Jeff Lien <jeff.lien@....com>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, david.darrington@....com,
        jeff.furlong@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations.

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, Jeff Lien wrote:

> This patch provides a performance improvement for the CRC16 calculations done in read/write
> workloads using the T10 Type 1/2/3 guard field.  For example, today with sequential write
> workloads (one thread/CPU of IO) we consume 100% of the CPU because of the CRC16 computation
> bottleneck.  Today's block devices are considerably faster, but the CRC16 calculation prevents
> folks from utilizing the throughput of such devices.  To speed up this calculation and expose
> the block device throughput, we slice the old single byte for loop into a 16 byte for loop,
> with a larger CRC table to match.  The result has shown 5x performance improvements on various
> big endian and little endian systems running the 4.18.0 kernel version.

You are nevertheless increasing the kernel size by 7.5 KB.

Could the small table still be preserved with a config option for those 
who require small more than fast?

That could look like:

static const __u16 t10_dif_crc_table[][256] = {
	{
	[...]
	},
#ifndef CONFIG_CRC16_SMALL
	{
	[...]
	[...]
	},
#endif
};

and the code to suit.


Nicolas