From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations.
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 12:30:29 -0400
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        (Jeffrey Lien's message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:32:52 +0000")
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Jeffrey,

> So it seems the CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF_PCLMUL=y provides the best
> performance.

Thanks for confirming!

> Are there any negative side effect to this config option?

Other than kernel image size, not really.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering