Hi! > This patch provides a performance improvement for the CRC16 calculations done in read/write > workloads using the T10 Type 1/2/3 guard field. For example, today with sequential write > workloads (one thread/CPU of IO) we consume 100% of the CPU because of the CRC16 computation > bottleneck. Today's block devices are considerably faster, but the CRC16 calculation prevents > folks from utilizing the throughput of such devices. To speed up this calculation and expose > the block device throughput, we slice the old single byte for loop into a 16 byte for loop, > with a larger CRC table to match. The result has shown 5x performance improvements on various > big endian and little endian systems running the 4.18.0 kernel version. Well, 8K table fits in cache easily, and when running benchmark, table will be cached so it is a win... Is it also win on non-benchmark workloads and smaller systems? Pavel
