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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: Run checksumming in parallel accross multiple alu's
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 07:21:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>
> > Sébastien Dugué reported to me that devices implementing ipoib (which
> > don't have checksum offload hardware were spending a significant amount
> > of time computing checksums. We found that by splitting the checksum
> > computation into two separate streams, each skipping successive elements
> > of the buffer being summed, we could parallelize the checksum operation
> > accros multiple alus. Since neither chain is dependent on the result of
> > the other, we get a speedup in execution (on hardware that has multiple
> > alu's available, which is almost ubiquitous on x86), and only a
> > negligible decrease on hardware that has only a single alu (an extra
> > addition is introduced). Since addition in commutative, the result is
> > the same, only faster
>
> This patch should really come with measurement numbers: what performance
> increase (and drop) did you get on what CPUs.
>
> Thanks,
>
Sure, I can gather some stats for you. I'll post them later this week
Neil

> Ingo
>
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