Optimized ether_crc32_be()

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200406221712.13015.jhb at FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Friday 18 June 2004 07:37 pm, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> Taken from kern/49957, here's a table-driven implementation of
>> ether_crc32_be() to complement the little-endian one.  For 6-byte
>> MAC addresses it's about five times faster than the double loop.
>>
>> Comments?
>
>Doesn't look like anyone responded.  Perhaps ask someone on sparc64 to test it 
>along with some simple multicast test?  (Use mtest to join a group, turn on 
>bmcastecho and then ping the multicast group to see if it responds?)

For things like this I would really advocate adding a regression
test over in src/tools/regression.

Please ?

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