crypto: lrw - Optimize tweak computation
authorOndrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:51:33 +0000 (10:51 +0200)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:24:52 +0000 (13:24 +0800)
commitc778f96bf3471b870caa2b9282f08f176a416f88
tree85d8367951116ab1135f90bfeafcb9de05964b04
parentdc6d6d5a586fdd6876e18092d5363d48f26b7738
crypto: lrw - Optimize tweak computation

This patch rewrites the tweak computation to a slightly simpler method
that performs less bswaps. Based on performance measurements the new
code seems to provide slightly better performance than the old one.

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS (x86_64)
Performed using: https://gitlab.com/omos/linux-crypto-bench
Crypto driver used: lrw(ecb-aes-aesni)

Before:
       ALGORITHM KEY (b)        DATA (B)   TIME ENC (ns)   TIME DEC (ns)
        lrw(aes)     256              64             204             286
        lrw(aes)     320              64             227             203
        lrw(aes)     384              64             208             204
        lrw(aes)     256             512             441             439
        lrw(aes)     320             512             456             455
        lrw(aes)     384             512             469             483
        lrw(aes)     256            4096            2136            2190
        lrw(aes)     320            4096            2161            2213
        lrw(aes)     384            4096            2295            2369
        lrw(aes)     256           16384            7692            7868
        lrw(aes)     320           16384            8230            8691
        lrw(aes)     384           16384            8971            8813
        lrw(aes)     256           32768           15336           15560
        lrw(aes)     320           32768           16410           16346
        lrw(aes)     384           32768           18023           17465

After:
       ALGORITHM KEY (b)        DATA (B)   TIME ENC (ns)   TIME DEC (ns)
        lrw(aes)     256              64             200             203
        lrw(aes)     320              64             202             204
        lrw(aes)     384              64             204             205
        lrw(aes)     256             512             415             415
        lrw(aes)     320             512             432             440
        lrw(aes)     384             512             449             451
        lrw(aes)     256            4096            1838            1995
        lrw(aes)     320            4096            2123            1980
        lrw(aes)     384            4096            2100            2119
        lrw(aes)     256           16384            7183            6954
        lrw(aes)     320           16384            7844            7631
        lrw(aes)     384           16384            8256            8126
        lrw(aes)     256           32768           14772           14484
        lrw(aes)     320           32768           15281           15431
        lrw(aes)     384           32768           16469           16293

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
crypto/lrw.c