Re: [Qemu-devel] Question about add AF_ALG backend for virtio-crypto

["Longpeng (Mike)" <longpeng2@huawei.com>]

Hi Daniel,

On 2017/2/9 18:11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:58:55AM +0800, Longpeng (Mike) wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,


>>
>> So...you prefer approach 1 with a driver-table dispatch layer, right?
>> And this implies that we must either rename some public methods in
>> cipher-gcrypt.c/cipher-nettle.c, or change them to 'static'.
> 
> I'd suggest both - renaming them to have 'gcrypt' or 'nettle' in their
> name, and also make them static.
> 


OK.

>> I also have some other ideas:
>>

>> 2) *maybe we need a heuristic policy*
>>
>> I added some speed test in test-crypto-cipher/hash and found that for big
>> packets AF_ALG is much faster than library-impl while library-impl is better
>> when the packets is small:
>>
>> packet(bytes)	AF_ALG(MB/sec, intel QAT)	Library-impl(MB/sec)
>> 512		53.68				127.82
>> 1024		98.39				133.21
>> 2048		167.56				134.62
>> 4096		276.21				135.10
>> 8192		410.80				135.82
>> 16384		545.08				136.01
>> 32768		654.49				136.30
>> 65536		723.00				136.29
>>
>> If a @alg is both supported by AF_ALG and library-impl, I think we should decide
>> to use which one dynamically.
> 
> What exactly are you measuring here?
> 
> Is this comparing encryption of a fixed total size of data, and
> varying the packet size. ie sending 1024 * 512 byte packets against
> 256  * 2048 byte packages.
> 
> Or is it sending a constant number of packets eg 1024 * 512 byte
> packets against 1024 * 2048 byte packets ?
> 


The testcase encrypts data for 5 seconds and then calculates how many MBs it can
encrypt per second, as below:

    g_test_timer_start();
    do {
        g_assert(qcrypto_cipher_setiv(cipher,
                                      iv, niv,
                                      &err) == 0);

        g_assert(qcrypto_cipher_encrypt(cipher,
                                        plaintext,
                                        ciphertext,
                                        chunk_size,
                                        &err) == 0);
        total += chunk_size;
    } while (g_test_timer_elapsed() < 5.0);

    total /= 1024 * 1024; /* to MB */
    g_print("Testing cbc(aes128): ");
    g_print("Encrypting in chunks of %ld bytes: ", chunk_size);
    g_print("done. %.2f MB in %.2f secs: ", total, g_test_timer_last());
    g_print("%.2f MB/sec\t", total / g_test_timer_last());

chunk_size = 512/1024/2048/.../65536 bytes.

Some other projects (ie. cryptodev-linux, libkcapi) also use this way to test speed.

> The problem is that when constructing the cipher initially, we have no
> about the intended usage pattern, so can't decide which impl to use as
> is
> 


Yep, I wanted to allocate both af_alg and library-impl objects and then we can
choose dynamically before, but now it seems too stupid. :)

Thanks.

> 
> Regards,
> Daniel


-- 
Regards,
Longpeng(Mike)