Re: [PATCH 2/2] SHA1 transform: x86_64 AVX2 optimization - glue & build-v2

[chandramouli narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 06:40 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 07:47:50 PM, chandramouli narayanan wrote:
> > This git patch adds the glue, build and configuration changes
> > to include x86_64 AVX2 optimization of SHA1 transform to
> > crypto support. The patch has been tested with 3.14.0-rc1
> > kernel.
> > 
> > Changes from the initial version of this patch are in
> > a) check for BMI2 in addition to AVX2 support since
> > __sha1_transform_avx2() uses rorx
> > b) Since the module build has dependency on 64bit, it is
> > redundant to check it in the code here.
> > 
> > On a Haswell desktop, with turbo disabled and all cpus running
> > at maximum frequency, tcrypt shows AVX2 performance improvement
> > from 3% for 256 bytes update to 16% for 1024 bytes update over
> > AVX implementation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/Makefile b/arch/x86/crypto/Makefile
> > index 6ba54d6..61d6e28 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/crypto/Makefile
> > +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/Makefile
> > @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ aesni-intel-y := aesni-intel_asm.o aesni-intel_glue.o
> > fpu.o aesni-intel-$(CONFIG_64BIT) += aesni-intel_avx-x86_64.o
> >  ghash-clmulni-intel-y := ghash-clmulni-intel_asm.o
> > ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.o sha1-ssse3-y := sha1_ssse3_asm.o
> > sha1_ssse3_glue.o
> > +ifeq ($(avx2_supported),yes)
> > +sha1-ssse3-y += sha1_avx2_x86_64_asm.o
> 
> Use:
> 
> sha1-ssse3-$(CONFIG_AS_AVX2) += sha1_avx2_x86_64_asm.o
> 
> And you will not need the CONFIG_AS_AVX2 ifdef in your previous patch, no ?
> [...]
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut
Sorry for the delayed reply. Agreed, I will fix the dependency.

thanks
- mouli