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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: x86/aes-xts - handle CTS encryption more efficiently
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:04:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZiJPtK+cVWBXPn67@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240412154559.91807-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> 
> When encrypting a message whose length isn't a multiple of 16 bytes,
> encrypt the last full block in the main loop.  This works because only
> decryption uses the last two tweaks in reverse order, not encryption.
> 
> This improves the performance of decrypting messages whose length isn't
> a multiple of the AES block length, shrinks the size of
> aes-xts-avx-x86_64.o by 5.0%, and eliminates two instructions (a test
> and a not-taken conditional jump) when encrypting a message whose length
> *is* a multiple of the AES block length.
> 
> While it's not super useful to optimize for ciphertext stealing given
> that it's rarely needed in practice, the other two benefits mentioned
> above make this optimization worthwhile.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/crypto/aes-xts-avx-x86_64.S | 53 +++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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2024-04-12 15:45 [PATCH] crypto: x86/aes-xts - handle CTS encryption more efficiently Eric Biggers
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