lib: introduce arch optimized hash library

We introduce a new hashing library that is meant to be used in
the contexts where speed is more important than uniformity of the
hashed values. The hash library leverages architecture specific
implementation to achieve high performance and fall backs to
jhash() for the generic case.

On Intel-based x86 architectures, the library can exploit the crc32l
instruction, part of the Intel SSE4.2 instruction set, if the
instruction is supported by the processor. This implementation
is twice as fast as the jhash() implementation on an i7 processor.

Additional architectures, such as Arm64 provide instructions for
accelerating the computation of CRC, so they could be added as well
in follow-up work.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/hash.h b/include/asm-generic/hash.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..05cb3421ee7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/hash.h
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_HASH_H
+#define __ASM_GENERIC_HASH_H
+
+struct arch_hash_ops;
+static inline void setup_arch_fast_hash(struct arch_hash_ops *ops)
+{
+}
+
+#endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_HASH_H */