Re: [PATCH net-next] arch_fast_hash: avoid indirect function calls and implement hash in asm

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Dec 04 2014 - 10:56:50 EST


On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:08:50PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> By default the arch_fast_hash hashing function pointers are initialized
> to jhash(2). If during boot-up a CPU with SSE4.2 is detected they get
> updated to the CRC32 ones. This dispatching scheme incurs a function
> pointer lookup and indirect call for every hashing operation.

Just curious, is jhash actually faster than generic C CRC32 on
common platforms?

Cheers,
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