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From: "Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH]  crc32 improvements for 2.5 [RESEND]
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:45:34 +0100
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From: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@digeo.com>
> Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se> wrote:
> >
> > I did the optimizations in the crc32 patch Brian Murphy submitted a while ago.
> > Now I have cleaned it up a little and made some more optimizations.
> 
> I added this to -mm, but I don't know how to test it ;)
> 
> What testing have you performed?  And have you any benchmark results?

I have tested this extensivly using JFFS2 on PPC. I belive David Woodhouse 
has done the same on X86.

I don't have any benchmarks, I used the JFFS2 mounting process which
crc32 checks all data and metadata in the FS and timed that.

There are some ethernet drivers that uses crc32 as well.

   Jocke
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