Re: [PATCH -v3] crypto: Add PCLMULQDQ accelerated GHASHimplementation

From: Huang Ying
Date: Tue Sep 15 2009 - 21:21:42 EST


On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 22:42 +0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 13:42 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > Hi, Herbert,
> >
> > The dependency to irq_fpu_usable has been merged by linus' tree.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Huang Ying
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------->
> > PCLMULQDQ is used to accelerate the most time-consuming part of GHASH,
> > carry-less multiplication. More information about PCLMULQDQ can be
> > found at:
> >
> > http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/carry-less-multiplication-and-its-usage-for-computing-the-gcm-mode/
> >
> > Because PCLMULQDQ changes XMM state, its usage must be enclosed with
> > kernel_fpu_begin/end, which can be used only in process context, the
> > acceleration is implemented as crypto_ahash. That is, request in soft
> > IRQ context will be defered to the cryptd kernel thread.
> >
> > v3:
> > - Revise GHASH implementation, performance increase about 2x.
>
>
> You have three style issues in this patch, for instance you shouldn't
> set values inside if() statements .. If you run checkpatch on this it
> will tell you all the style problems. Could you run this through
> checkpatch and fix any errors it's find ?

Thanks, I will fix them.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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