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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] x86/hash: swap parameters of crc32_u32()
On 02/24/2014 04:51 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/24/2014 04:41 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>
>>> So I'm guessing this hash is deliberately using the CRC32 instruction
>>> "backwards", which would actually make sense: an actual CRC is actually
>>> a pretty poor hash due to linearity.
>>>
>
> OK, it really is even more confusing than that.
>
> It does seem like the crc32 instruction really *is* commutative, which
> isn't something I would personally have expected at all.
>
> Given that fact, I suspect the ordering in the DPDK is actually a bug,
> and that we should correct the ordering (which I would do at the call
> sites because it seems to make the code clearer) because it reduces the
> size of the loop by two instructions.
>
> I guess I should find out how to file a bug report against DPDK too...
>

Looking through the DPDK project git history, it seems that this was a
bug introduced when changing from using inline assembly to using intrinsics:

static inline uint32_t
rte_hash_crc_4byte(uint32_t data, uint32_t init_val)
{
- asm volatile("crc32 %[data], %[init_val]"
- : [init_val]"=r" (init_val)
- : [data]"r" (data), "[init_val]" (init_val));
- return init_val;
+ return _mm_crc32_u32(data, init_val);
}

The operand order, of course, of the intrinsic being the opposite of
AT&T-style assembly.

I never expected that the CRC32 operation would be commutative. Very
fascinating.

-hpa



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