From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
w@1wt.eu, dan@doxpara.com, davem@davemloft.net,
gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mpm@selenic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve sequence number generation.
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:02:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110821040244.GA21405@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110821032753.GA8992@thunk.org>
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:27:53PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> Here's a random thought --- it won't help on anything other than
> modern x86's, but who's to say we have to use the same algorithm on
> all platforms? Does the AES-NI facility provide enough of a speedup
> that it's worth using it instead of MD5, at least on modern x86
> systems which have this support?
It is fast but it also touches SSE state.
Cheers,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-21 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20110816.021031.1778295949152117484.davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-16 10:30 ` get_random_int() should use hash[1] George Spelvin
2011-08-20 23:39 ` [PATCH 0/2] Improve sequence number generation George Spelvin
2011-08-20 23:44 ` David Miller
2011-08-21 0:49 ` George Spelvin
2011-08-21 1:28 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-08-21 3:04 ` George Spelvin
2011-08-21 3:27 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-08-21 4:02 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2011-08-22 2:06 ` George Spelvin
2011-08-07 1:50 David Miller
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