Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32calgorithm by new crypto API.

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 13:06:26 EST


On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:45:34 +0800
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On the other hand, one of the advantages of doing it through the
> crypto API is that this kind of selection is useful for quite a
> few operations, e.g., xor or even memcpy.

well you still have that indirect function call

for libcrc32 we could alternatives() that...


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