Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2008 01:13:16 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API. |
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:10:17AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > > 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.
Anyway, the point here is the crc32c is nothing special. It's just one out of many algorithms that has/will have hardware acceleration support.
Rather than doing ad-hoc implementations and optimising that whenever such a thing pops up, let's spend our effort in creating a common platform that can be reused.
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