Re: [PATCH 0/9] POLYVAL library

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2025 at 03:47:15PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This series is targeting libcrypto-next.  It can also be retrieved from:
> 
>     git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git polyval-lib-v1
> 
> This series migrates the POLYVAL code to lib/crypto/.  It turns out that
> just like Poly1305, the library is a much better fit for it.
> 
> This series also replaces the generic implementation of POLYVAL with a
> much better one.
> 
> Notably, this series improves the performance of HCTR2, since it
> eliminates unnecessary overhead that was being incurred by accessing
> POLYVAL via the crypto_shash API.  I see a 45% increase in throughput
> with 64-byte messages, 53% with 128-byte, or 6% with 4096-byte.
> 
> It also eliminates the need to explicitly enable the optimized POLYVAL
> code, as it's now enabled automatically when HCTR2 support is enabled.
> 
> Eric Biggers (9):
>   crypto: polyval - Rename conflicting functions
>   lib/crypto: polyval: Add POLYVAL library
>   lib/crypto: tests: Add KUnit tests for POLYVAL
>   lib/crypto: arm64/polyval: Migrate optimized code into library
>   lib/crypto: x86/polyval: Migrate optimized code into library
>   crypto: hctr2 - Convert to use POLYVAL library
>   crypto: polyval - Remove the polyval crypto_shash
>   crypto: testmgr - Remove polyval tests
>   fscrypt: Drop obsolete recommendation to enable optimized POLYVAL
> 

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-next

- Eric