From: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/16] ext4: Add metadata checksumming
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 18:54:28 +0200
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> On Westmere and beyond it is possible to accelerate generic CRC
> calculation using the PCLMULQDQ operation. There are many of our CRC

Faster than the lookup table? That's hard to believe.

-Andi