On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:52:47PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> Currently the CRC-T10DIF checksum is computed using a generic table lookup
> algorithm.  By switching the checksum to PCLMULQDQ based computation,
> we can speedup the computation by 8x for checksumming 512 bytes and
> even more for larger buffer size.  This will improve performance of SCSI
> drivers turning on the CRC-T10IDF checksum.  In our SSD based experiments,
> we have seen increase disk throughput by 3.5x with T10DIF for 512 byte
> block size.
> 
> This patch set provides the x86_64 routine using PCLMULQDQ instruction
> and switches the crc_t10dif library function to use the faster PCLMULQDQ
> based routine when available.
> 
> Tim
> 
> v3
> 1. Update the crct10dif crypto transform used in the crct10dif library in a 
> safe way.
> 2. Load the accelerated t10dif transform for the x86_64 cpus that support it.
> 3. Added generic crct10dif crypto transform.

All applied.  Thanks Tim.
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