Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] lib: introduce arch optimized hash library

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 12/12/2013 06:54 PM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
...
> Is it possible to trace that this comes from the DPDK?
> At least in the commit log, like it was done in the v1.

Hm, that got lost; but we can put that back into the commit log.
In any case, we properly included the header comment, of course.

> > +static inline u32 crc32_u32(u32 crc, u32 val)
> > +{
> > +    asm ("crc32l %1,%0\n" : "+r" (crc) : "rm" (val));
> I'm not an expert, but is it not possible to use intrisics functions, like it is
> done in the original code?

Intrinsics are not used/available in the kernel, so we used asm
as everywhere else.
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