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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, will.deacon@arm.com,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	ebiggers@google.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] arm64: wire CRC32 instructions into core crc32 routines
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:53:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180827145352.GF2311@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180827110245.14812-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 01:02:41PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> While this is not known to cause performance issues, calling a table based
> time variant implementation with a non-negligible D-cache footprint (8 KB)
> is wasteful in any case, and now that the crc32 instructions have been made
> mandatory in the architecture, let's wire them up into the core crc routines.

Stupid question --- are there any arm64 SOC's out there which do *not*
have the crc32 instructions?  Presumably there won't be in the future,
because it's now mandatory --- but where there any in the past?

	     	 	       	   	 - Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-27 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-27 11:02 [PATCH 0/4] arm64: wire CRC32 instructions into core crc32 routines Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] lib/crc32: make core crc32() routines weak so they can be overridden Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-04  9:44   ` Herbert Xu
2018-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] arm64: cpufeature: add feature for CRC32 instructions Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-28 17:01   ` Will Deacon
2018-08-28 18:43     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-04  3:18       ` Herbert Xu
2018-09-04  9:38         ` Will Deacon
2018-09-04  9:44           ` Herbert Xu
2018-09-10 15:45         ` Catalin Marinas
2018-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64/lib: add accelerated crc32 routines Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] crypto: arm64/crc32 - remove PMULL based CRC32 driver Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-04  5:21   ` Herbert Xu
2018-08-27 14:53 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2018-08-27 15:18   ` [PATCH 0/4] arm64: wire CRC32 instructions into core crc32 routines Ard Biesheuvel

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