On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 01:02:45PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Now that the scalar fallbacks have been moved out of this driver into > the core crc32()/crc32c() routines, we are left with a CRC32 crypto API > driver for arm64 that is based only on 64x64 polynomial multiplication, > which is an optional instruction in the ARMv8 architecture, and is less > and less likely to be available on cores that do not also implement the > CRC32 instructions, given that those are mandatory in the architecture > as of ARMv8.1. > > Since the scalar instructions do not require the special handling that > SIMD instructions do, and since they turn out to be considerably faster > on some cores (Cortex-A53) as well, there is really no point in keeping > this code around so let's just remove it. > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
