Re: [PATCH 14/14] crc32: Select an algorithm via kconfig

From: Joakim Tjernlund
Date: Tue Dec 13 2011 - 03:27:18 EST


"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 2011/12/13 07:32:28:
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 05:10:45PM -0600, Bob Pearson wrote:
> > That choice was for Joakim who measured better performance on his 32 bit PPC
> > platform with "by 4".
>
> Ok. On my 1.33GHz PowerBook I get ~255MB/s with slice by 4 and ~270MB/s with
> slice by 8. I think it's a PPC 7447, and definitely 32-bit. In any case, it
> reports having 32K of L1D cache.

I tested Bobs early version on my mpc8321(266MHz, embedded CPU) and it was just
half the speed compared with current crc32.

Jocke

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