Re: [PATCH crypto-next v2 1/3] crypto: poly1305 - add new 32 and 64-bit generic versions

Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-12T13:47:06Z

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 2:08 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 1:03 PM Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org> wrote:
> > Can you provide some numbers to testify that? In my tests, the 32-bit
> > version gives me exact the same results.
>
> On 32-bit, if you only call update() once, then the results are the
> same. However, as soon as you call it more than once, this new version
> has increasing gains. Other than that, they should behave pretty much
> identically.

Oh, you asked for numbers. I just fired up an Armada 370/XP and am
seeing a 8% increase in performance on calls to the update function.