On 12/12/2013 09:20 PM, Jesse Gross wrote:
Out of curiosity, did you try using crc32q? OVS data structures are
already aligned to 8 bytes. It would also be interesting to know if a
parallelized implementation is worthwhile, although my guess is that
the OVS flow key is not quite long enough.
We did not try with crc32q yet because we had the very same concerns.
In the general case, when the length of the key is not a multiple of 8
bytes, we will have to use the crc32q to process multiple 64 bit
numbers, then process the the rest with a crc32l. My guess is that the
performance benefit won't be that high.
But we will try that out and if the outcome will be positive, we will
submit a follow up patch.
Best,
Francesco
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