Re: [PATCH 3/3] crc32c: Implement a self-test for CRC32c

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:24:22PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 03:18:54PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > I suspect it would be pretty easy to adapt the Makefile to generate the
> > relevant .c and .h files; in particular it could be useful to use the crypto
> > framework for crc32 on the off chance anyone wants to provide hwaccel for that
> > too.
> 
> crc32 or crc32c?  Note that there already is a hardware optimized crc32c
> for recent Intel CPUs in arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel.c.

crc32, since it currently doesn't use the crypto api at all, and Bob was
interested in implementing slice-by-8 for it.  Though I suppose so long as
there aren't any reasons to override the sw crc32 implementation we could just
fall back to Bob's earlier patch to implement slice-by-8 for crc32?

<shrug> I don't mind implementing faster crc32/crc32c.

(As far as crc32c goes, my motivation is to make sw crc32c faster for the cases
where you don't have Intel hw.)

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