Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Dec 2014 23:56:11 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] arch_fast_hash: avoid indirect function calls and implement hash in asm |
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:08:50PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > By default the arch_fast_hash hashing function pointers are initialized > to jhash(2). If during boot-up a CPU with SSE4.2 is detected they get > updated to the CRC32 ones. This dispatching scheme incurs a function > pointer lookup and indirect call for every hashing operation.
Just curious, is jhash actually faster than generic C CRC32 on common platforms?
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