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

[Herbert Xu]

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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