From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jeff Lien <jeff.lien@wdc.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com,
martin.petersen@oracle.com, david.darrington@wdc.com,
jeff.furlong@wdc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations.
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 20:34:25 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YSQ.7.76.1808102027220.13885@knanqh.ubzr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3c86ddd67a73c09e09f3e51d7fc70036f00fb7b.camel@perches.com>
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 16:02 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, Joe Perches wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 14:12 -0500, Jeff Lien wrote:
> > > > This patch provides a performance improvement for the CRC16 calculations done in read/write
> > > > workloads using the T10 Type 1/2/3 guard field. For example, today with sequential write
> > > > workloads (one thread/CPU of IO) we consume 100% of the CPU because of the CRC16 computation
> > > > bottleneck. Today's block devices are considerably faster, but the CRC16 calculation prevents
> > > > folks from utilizing the throughput of such devices. To speed up this calculation and expose
> > > > the block device throughput, we slice the old single byte for loop into a 16 byte for loop,
> > > > with a larger CRC table to match. The result has shown 5x performance improvements on various
> > > > big endian and little endian systems running the 4.18.0 kernel version.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > This seems a sensible tradeoff for the 4k text size increase.
> >
> > More like 7.5KB. Would be best if this was configurable so the small
> > version remained available.
>
> Maybe something like: (compiled, untested)
> ---
> crypto/Kconfig | 10 +
> crypto/crct10dif_common.c | 543 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 549 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
> index f3e40ac56d93..88d9d17bb18a 100644
> --- a/crypto/Kconfig
> +++ b/crypto/Kconfig
> @@ -618,6 +618,16 @@ config CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF
> a crypto transform. This allows for faster crc t10 diff
> transforms to be used if they are available.
>
> +config CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF_TABLE_SIZE
> + int "Size of CRCT10DIF crc tables (as a power of 2)"
> + depends on CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF
> + range 1 5
> + default 1 if EMBEDDED
> + default 5
You could even make the prompt depend on EXPERT.
I like it!
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-11 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-10 19:12 [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations Jeff Lien
2018-08-10 19:23 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-10 20:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2018-08-11 0:11 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-11 0:34 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2018-08-11 2:39 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-11 9:04 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-11 15:06 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-13 18:41 ` Jeffrey Lien
2018-08-13 3:36 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-13 4:29 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-10 20:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2018-08-10 20:16 ` Eric Biggers
2018-08-16 14:02 ` Jeffrey Lien
2018-08-16 14:22 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-16 15:41 ` Christophe LEROY
2018-08-16 17:38 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-17 3:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-16 15:47 ` Christophe LEROY
2018-08-10 20:56 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-11 15:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-11 16:35 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-22 1:40 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-22 6:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-24 15:32 ` Jeffrey Lien
2018-08-24 15:39 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-24 16:29 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-24 17:38 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-24 21:46 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-24 21:54 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-24 22:12 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-25 6:12 ` Herbert Xu
2018-08-26 2:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 2:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] crypto: Introduce notifier for new crypto algorithms Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 2:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] crc-t10dif: Pick better transform if one becomes available Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-27 6:13 ` Herbert Xu
2018-08-26 2:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] crc-t10dif: Allow current transform to be inspected in sysfs Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 2:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] block: Integrity profile init function to trigger module loads Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 8:22 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-26 13:30 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 13:44 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-26 13:48 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-27 6:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] crypto: Introduce notifier for new crypto algorithms Herbert Xu
2018-08-30 14:57 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] crc-t10dif: Pick better transform if one becomes available Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] crc-t10dif: Allow current transform to be inspected in sysfs Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-31 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] crypto: Introduce notifier for new crypto algorithms Jeffrey Lien
2018-09-04 5:21 ` Herbert Xu
2018-09-04 13:30 ` Torsten Duwe
2018-08-24 16:30 ` [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-13 4:44 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2018-08-13 11:45 ` David Laight
2018-08-13 13:50 ` David Laight
2018-08-13 22:44 ` Tim Chen
2018-08-15 12:51 ` Jeffrey Lien
2018-08-15 18:31 ` Pavel Machek
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