powerpc: Use CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER

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I ran some tests to compare hash_64 using shifts and multiplies.
The results:

POWER6:	~2x slower
POWER7: ~2x faster
POWER8: ~2x faster

Now we have a proper config option, select
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER on POWER7 and POWER8.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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Anton Blanchard 2014-09-16 10:49:14 +10:00 • committed by Michael Ellerman

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