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From: Tony W Wang-oc <TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
	<tglx@linutronix.de>, <mingo@redhat.com>, <bp@alien8.de>,
	<x86@kernel.org>, <hpa@zytor.com>, <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <TimGuo-oc@zhaoxin.com>,
	<CooperYan@zhaoxin.com>, <QiyuanWang@zhaoxin.com>,
	<HerryYang@zhaoxin.com>, <CobeChen@zhaoxin.com>,
	<SilviaZhao@zhaoxin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: x86/crc32c-intel - Don't match some Zhaoxin CPUs
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:28:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f8d17bf-c1d9-6496-d2f8-5773633011fb@zhaoxin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X9Ov3RWDpUik7gXo@sol.localdomain>

On 12/12/2020 01:43, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 07:29:04PM +0800, Tony W Wang-oc wrote:
>> The driver crc32c-intel match CPUs supporting X86_FEATURE_XMM4_2.
>> On platforms with Zhaoxin CPUs supporting this X86 feature, When
>> crc32c-intel and crc32c-generic are both registered, system will
>> use crc32c-intel because its .cra_priority is greater than
>> crc32c-generic. This case expect to use crc32c-generic driver for
>> some Zhaoxin CPUs to get performance gain, So remove these Zhaoxin
>> CPUs support from crc32c-intel.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tony W Wang-oc <TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com>
> 
> Does this mean that the performance of the crc32c instruction on those CPUs is
> actually slower than a regular C implementation?  That's very weird.
> 

From the lmbench3 Create and Delete file test on those chips, I think yes.

sincerely
Tony

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-14  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-11 11:29 [PATCH] crypto: x86/crc32c-intel - Don't match some Zhaoxin CPUs Tony W Wang-oc
2020-12-11 13:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-12  4:32   ` Tony W Wang-oc
2020-12-11 17:43 ` Eric Biggers
2020-12-12  9:36   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-12-12 10:54     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-12-14  2:29       ` Tony W Wang-oc
2020-12-14  2:28   ` Tony W Wang-oc [this message]
2020-12-14 20:41     ` Eric Biggers
2020-12-15  2:15       ` Tony W Wang-oc
2020-12-15 17:56         ` Eric Biggers
2020-12-21  2:46           ` tonywwang-oc
2020-12-21 19:27             ` hpa
2020-12-22  3:01               ` tonywwang-oc
2020-12-22  4:54                 ` hpa
2021-01-07  6:23                   ` Tony W Wang-oc
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-12-14  3:59 Tony W Wang-oc
2020-12-15  8:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-15 10:02   ` Tony W Wang-oc
2020-12-15 10:28 Tony W Wang-oc
2021-01-02 21:12 ` Herbert Xu
2021-01-07  6:27   ` Tony W Wang-oc

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