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, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/hash.c b/lib/hash.c
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index 000000000000..b89f06a2d606
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/hash.c
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+/* General purpose hashing library
+ *
+ * That's a start of a kernel hashing library, which can be extended
+ * with further algorithms in future. arch_fast_hash{2,}() will
+ * eventually resolve to an architecture optimized implementation.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2013 Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com>
+ * Copyright 2013 Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
+ * Copyright 2013 Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
+ * Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (GPLv2)
+ */
+
+#include <linux/jhash.h>
+#include <linux/hash.h>
+
+static struct fast_hash_ops arch_hash_ops __read_mostly = {
+	.hash  = jhash,
+	.hash2 = jhash2,
+};
+
+u32 arch_fast_hash(const void *data, u32 len, u32 seed)
+{
+	return arch_hash_ops.hash(data, len, seed);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arch_fast_hash);
+
+u32 arch_fast_hash2(const u32 *data, u32 len, u32 seed)
+{
+	return arch_hash_ops.hash2(data, len, seed);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arch_fast_hash2);
+
+static int __init hashlib_init(void)
+{
+	setup_arch_fast_hash(&arch_hash_ops);
+	return 0;
+}
+early_initcall(hashlib_init);