crypto: x86/aes-xts - wire up AESNI + AVX implementation
Add an AES-XTS implementation "xts-aes-aesni-avx" for x86_64 CPUs that have the AES-NI and AVX extensions but not VAES. It's similar to the existing xts-aes-aesni in that uses xmm registers to operate on one AES block at a time. It differs from xts-aes-aesni in the following ways: - It uses the VEX-coded (non-destructive) instructions from AVX. This improves performance slightly. - It incorporates some additional optimizations such as interleaving the tweak computation with AES en/decryption, handling single-page messages more efficiently, and caching the first round key. - It supports only 64-bit (x86_64). - It's generated by an assembly macro that will also be used to generate VAES-based implementations. The performance improvement over xts-aes-aesni varies from small to large, depending on the CPU and other factors such as the size of the messages en/decrypted. For example, the following increases in AES-256-XTS decryption throughput are seen on the following CPUs: | 4096-byte messages | 512-byte messages | ----------------------+--------------------+-------------------+ Intel Skylake | 6% | 31% | Intel Cascade Lake | 4% | 26% | AMD Zen 1 | 61% | 73% | AMD Zen 2 | 36% | 59% | (The above CPUs don't support VAES, so they can't use VAES instead.) While this isn't as large an improvement as what VAES provides, this still seems worthwhile. This implementation is fairly easy to provide based on the assembly macro that's needed for VAES anyway, and it will be the best implementation on a large number of CPUs (very roughly, the CPUs launched by Intel and AMD from 2011 to 2018). This makes the existing xts-aes-aesni *mostly* obsolete. For now, leave it in place to support 32-bit kernels and also CPUs like Intel Westmere that support AES-NI but not AVX. (We could potentially remove it anyway and just rely on the indirect acceleration via ecb-aes-aesni in those cases, but that change will need to be considered separately.) Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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