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| author |   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2018-09-01 00:17:07 -0700 |
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| committer |   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2018-09-04 11:37:05 +0800 |
| commit | a1b22a5f45fe884147a99e7c381bcc48d9b2acef (patch) | |
| tree | a285e59c34660ad0b822769b2746334e428b916d /drivers/md | |
| parent | crc-t10dif: Allow current transform to be inspected in sysfs (diff) | |
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crypto: arm/chacha20 - faster 8-bit rotations and other optimizations
Optimize ChaCha20 NEON performance by:
- Implementing the 8-bit rotations using the 'vtbl.8' instruction.
- Streamlining the part that adds the original state and XORs the data.
- Making some other small tweaks.
On ARM Cortex-A7, these optimizations improve ChaCha20 performance from
about 12.08 cycles per byte to about 11.37 -- a 5.9% improvement.
There is a tradeoff involved with the 'vtbl.8' rotation method since
there is at least one CPU (Cortex-A53) where it's not fastest. But it
seems to be a better default; see the added comment. Overall, this
patch reduces Cortex-A53 performance by less than 0.5%.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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