Re: [PATCH] crypto: arm64/gcm-ce - unroll factors to 4-way interleave of aes and ghash

[Eric Biggers]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 06:30:25AM +0000, XiaokangQian wrote:
> To improve performance on cores with deep piplines such as A72,N1,
> implement gcm(aes) using a 4-way interleave of aes and ghash (totally
> 8 blocks in parallel), which can make full utilize of pipelines rather
> than the 4-way interleave we used currently. It can gain about 20% for
> big data sizes such that 8k.
> 
> This is a complete new version of the GCM part of the combined GCM/GHASH
> driver, it will co-exist with the old driver, only serve for big data
> sizes. Instead of interleaving four invocations of AES where each chunk
> of 64 bytes is encrypted first and then ghashed, the new version uses a
> more coarse grained approach where a chunk of 64 bytes is encrypted and
> at the same time, one chunk of 64 bytes is ghashed (or ghashed and
> decrypted in the converse case).
> 
> The table below compares the performance of the old driver and the new
> one on various micro-architectures and running in various modes with
> various data sizes.
> 
>             |     AES-128       |     AES-192       |     AES-256       |
>      #bytes | 1024 | 1420 |  8k | 1024 | 1420 |  8k | 1024 | 1420 |  8k |
>      -------+------+------+-----+------+------+-----+------+------+-----+
>         A72 | 5.5% |  12% | 25% | 2.2% |  9.5%|  23%| -1%  |  6.7%| 19% |
>         A57 |-0.5% |  9.3%| 32% | -3%  |  6.3%|  26%| -6%  |  3.3%| 21% |
>         N1  | 0.4% |  7.6%|24.5%| -2%  |  5%  |  22%| -4%  |  2.7%| 20% |
> 
> Signed-off-by: XiaokangQian <xiaokang.qian@xxxxxxx>

Does this pass the self-tests, including the fuzz tests which are enabled by
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS=y?

- Eric