Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758134AbYHDOUj (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:20:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756245AbYHDOUX (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:20:23 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:42584 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753338AbYHDOUV (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:20:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 07:20:15 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Herbert Xu Cc: David Woodhouse , Austin Zhang , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API. Message-ID: <20080804072015.0fcd23e7@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080804140435.GA11227@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1217842507.20845.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1217844725.3454.580.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1217846139.20845.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1217846726.3454.589.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080804140435.GA11227@gondor.apana.org.au> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 19 On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:04:35 +0800 Herbert Xu wrote: > There only three crc32c users in the kernel tree and the crypto > interface will serve the perfectly. isn't it a bit heavy for something as simple as a crc? (which after all is one instruction now ;0) -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/