On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:13:41PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This patchset (re)uses Bob Pearson's crc32 slice-by-8 code to stamp out a
> software crc32c implementation. It removes the crc32c implementation in
> crypto/ in favor of using the stamped-out one in lib/. There is also a change
> to Kconfig so that the kernel builder can pick an implementation best suited
> for the hardware.
>
> The motivation for this patchset is that I am working on adding full metadata
> checksumming to ext4. As far as performance impact of adding checksumming
> goes, I see nearly no change with a standard mail server ffsb simulation. On
> a
> test that involves only file creation and deletion and extent tree writes, I
> see a drop of about 50 pcercent with the current kernel crc32c implementation;
> this improves to a drop of about 20 percent with the enclosed crc32c code.
>
> When metadata is usually a small fraction of total IO, this new implementation
> doesn't help much because metadata is usually a small fraction of total IO.
> However, when we are doing IO that is almost all metadata (such as rm -rf'ing
> a
> tree), then this patch speeds up the operation substantially.
>
> Incidentally, given that iscsi, sctp, and btrfs also use crc32c, this patchset
> should improve their speed as well. I have not yet quantified that, however.
I thought they usually used the SSE instruction for crc32 or
equivalent.
Joel
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