Re: [PATCH 0/8] VAES+AVX2 optimized implementation of AES-GCM

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 07:31:09PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This patchset replaces the 256-bit vector implementation of AES-GCM for
> x86_64 with one that requires AVX2 rather than AVX512.  This greatly
> improves AES-GCM performance on CPUs that have VAES but not AVX512, for
> example by up to 74% on AMD Zen 3.  For more details, see patch 1.
> 
> This patchset also renames the 512-bit vector implementation of AES-GCM
> for x86_64 to be named after AVX512 rather than AVX10/512, then adds
> some additional optimizations to it.
> 
> This patchset applies to next-20250929 and is targeting 6.19.  Herbert,
> I'd prefer to just apply this myself.  But let me know if you'd prefer
> to take it instead (considering that AES-GCM hasn't been librarified
> yet).  Either way, there's no hurry, since this is targeting 6.19.
> 
> Eric Biggers (8):
>   crypto: x86/aes-gcm - add VAES+AVX2 optimized code
>   crypto: x86/aes-gcm - remove VAES+AVX10/256 optimized code
>   crypto: x86/aes-gcm - rename avx10 and avx10_512 to avx512
>   crypto: x86/aes-gcm - clean up AVX512 code to assume 512-bit vectors
>   crypto: x86/aes-gcm - reorder AVX512 precompute and aad_update
>     functions
>   crypto: x86/aes-gcm - revise some comments in AVX512 code
>   crypto: x86/aes-gcm - optimize AVX512 precomputation of H^2 from H^1
>   crypto: x86/aes-gcm - optimize long AAD processing with AVX512
> 
>  arch/x86/crypto/Makefile                      |    5 +-
>  arch/x86/crypto/aes-gcm-aesni-x86_64.S        |   12 +-
>  arch/x86/crypto/aes-gcm-vaes-avx2.S           | 1150 +++++++++++++++++
>  ...m-avx10-x86_64.S => aes-gcm-vaes-avx512.S} |  722 +++++------
>  arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c            |  264 ++--
>  5 files changed, 1667 insertions(+), 486 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/crypto/aes-gcm-vaes-avx2.S
>  rename arch/x86/crypto/{aes-gcm-avx10-x86_64.S => aes-gcm-vaes-avx512.S} (69%)
> 
> base-commit: 3b9b1f8df454caa453c7fb07689064edb2eda90a

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

- Eric