Re: [PATCH] x86: Run checksumming in parallel accross multiple alu's

[Ingo Molnar]

* Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sébastien Dugué reported to me that devices implementing ipoib (which 
> don't have checksum offload hardware were spending a significant amount 
> of time computing checksums.  We found that by splitting the checksum 
> computation into two separate streams, each skipping successive elements 
> of the buffer being summed, we could parallelize the checksum operation 
> accros multiple alus.  Since neither chain is dependent on the result of 
> the other, we get a speedup in execution (on hardware that has multiple 
> alu's available, which is almost ubiquitous on x86), and only a 
> negligible decrease on hardware that has only a single alu (an extra 
> addition is introduced).  Since addition in commutative, the result is 
> the same, only faster

This patch should really come with measurement numbers: what performance 
increase (and drop) did you get on what CPUs.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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