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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Sander <sander@humilis.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Freek Dijkstra <Freek.Dijkstra@sara.nl>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Poor read performance on high-end server
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:37:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100820143735.GE5854@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100820045344.GB28712@attic.humilis.net>

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 06:53:44AM +0200, Sander wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote (ao):
> > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:55:21PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Also, I didn't see Chris mention this, but if you have a newer intel box
> > > you can use hw accellerated crc32c instead. For some reason my test box
> > > always loads crc32c and not crc32c-intel, so I need to do that manually.
> > > That helps a lot with higher transfer rates. You can check support for
> > > hw crc32c by checking for the 'sse4_2' flag in /proc/cpuinfo.
> > 
> > Yeah, the HW assisted crc does make a huge difference.
> 
> The above says "newer intel box". I did some googling and it seems to
> mean really Intel CPUs only, not AMD, correct?
> 
> Is there a way to get hardware support for crc32c on ARM based systems?

So far I only know of the intel sse4.2 systems that support this.

-chris


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-05 14:05 Poor read performance on high-end server Freek Dijkstra
2010-08-05 14:51 ` Chris Mason
2010-08-05 21:21   ` Freek Dijkstra
2010-08-05 22:13     ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-08-06 11:41     ` Chris Mason
2010-08-06 11:55   ` Jens Axboe
2010-08-06 11:59     ` Chris Mason
2010-08-20  4:53       ` Sander
2010-08-20 14:37         ` Chris Mason [this message]
2010-08-08  7:18     ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-08 11:04       ` Jens Axboe
2010-08-09 14:45         ` Freek Dijkstra
2010-08-10  0:55           ` Chris Mason
2010-08-05 14:54 ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-08-05 16:21 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer

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