Re: CRC32 of messages

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Daniel Swarbrick
<daniel.swarbrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29/06/15 12:51, Gregory Farnum wrote:
>>
>> Yes, we have our own CRC32 checksum because loooong ago (before I
>> started!) Sage saw a lot of network corruption that wasn't being
>> caught by the TCP checksums so he added some to the Ceph message
>> stream. I can't tell you with any authority whatsoever how common that
>> problem is, but I don't think we're turning them off by default in
>> upstream. :)
>
> If the CRC32 implementation in Ceph is that dated (particularly the
> software implementations that will be used on AMD hardware), would it be
> worth checking out some of the updated implementations, such as the
> slice-by-16 or chunked methods?

Possibly? I really don't know anything about this. :) There have been
several changes to add new implementations (aarch64 and intel) since
then; pull requests welcome!
-Greg
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