Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759195AbYHDRK5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:10:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758838AbYHDRKj (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:10:39 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:51102 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758798AbYHDRKi (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:10:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 01:10:18 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Chris Mason , dwmw2@infradead.org, austin_zhang@linux.intel.com, 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: <20080804171017.GA13725@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1217866496.29139.75.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <20080804100605.4f0921f4@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080804100605.4f0921f4@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 21 On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:06:05AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > well you still have that indirect function call > > for libcrc32 we could alternatives() that... I don't see why you couldn't do that for the crypto API too if you wanted to. That way it would benefit all crypto users rather than just the crc32c (note the extra c) users. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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/