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

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 13:10:58 EST


On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:06:05AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> well you still have that indirect function call
>
> for libcrc32 we could alternatives() that...

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.

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