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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations.
Hi!

> This patch provides a performance improvement for the CRC16 calculations done in read/write
> workloads using the T10 Type 1/2/3 guard field. For example, today with sequential write
> workloads (one thread/CPU of IO) we consume 100% of the CPU because of the CRC16 computation
> bottleneck. Today's block devices are considerably faster, but the CRC16 calculation prevents
> folks from utilizing the throughput of such devices. To speed up this calculation and expose
> the block device throughput, we slice the old single byte for loop into a 16 byte for loop,
> with a larger CRC table to match. The result has shown 5x performance improvements on various
> big endian and little endian systems running the 4.18.0 kernel version.

Well, 8K table fits in cache easily, and when running benchmark, table will be cached so it is
a win... Is it also win on non-benchmark workloads and smaller systems?

Pavel

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