From 71ae8aac3e198c6f3577cb7ad3a17f6128e97bfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francesco Fusco Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:09:05 +0100 Subject: lib: introduce arch optimized hash library We introduce a new hashing library that is meant to be used in the contexts where speed is more important than uniformity of the hashed values. The hash library leverages architecture specific implementation to achieve high performance and fall backs to jhash() for the generic case. On Intel-based x86 architectures, the library can exploit the crc32l instruction, part of the Intel SSE4.2 instruction set, if the instruction is supported by the processor. This implementation is twice as fast as the jhash() implementation on an i7 processor. Additional architectures, such as Arm64 provide instructions for accelerating the computation of CRC, so they could be added as well in follow-up work. Signed-off-by: Francesco Fusco Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- arch/x86/lib/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/lib/Makefile') diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/Makefile b/arch/x86/lib/Makefile index 992d63bb154..eabcb6e6a90 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/lib/Makefile @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ lib-$(CONFIG_SMP) += rwlock.o lib-$(CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM) += rwsem.o lib-$(CONFIG_INSTRUCTION_DECODER) += insn.o inat.o -obj-y += msr.o msr-reg.o msr-reg-export.o +obj-y += msr.o msr-reg.o msr-reg-export.o hash.o ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y) obj-y += atomic64_32.o -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2