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Re: Generic crc32c support in kernel?




On 13.08.2016 23:17, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 07:37:50PM +0000, Paul_Koning%Dell.com@localhost wrote:
>>
>> It seems sensible.  It could be done by a common CRC routine that takes a table pointer argument, then the two specific routines are just wrappers.
>>
> 
> It would be really nice to not pay the function call overhead on modern
> Intel CPUs where this is a single instruction.  Not sure this is possible
> in a generic kernel without resorting to binary patch, but we do that in
> other places...
> 
> Thor
> 
A good resource for CRC32C offload in hardware is the DPDK code. There
is AMD64 (SSE) and ARMv8.

This code is BSD-licensed.

http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_hash/rte_hash_crc.h

It might be taken as-is with adaptions.

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