* [PATCH] lib/crypto: x86/nh: Optimize nh_sse2()
@ 2026-11-05 4:24 Eric Biggers
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From: Eric Biggers @ 2026-11-05 4:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-crypto
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel, Jason A . Donenfeld, Herbert Xu, Eric Biggers
Various microoptimizations for nh_sse2(). Nothing too exciting:
- Instead of adding the message words to the key words and then
permuting both, do the following: permute both when loading, add the
permuted words, and multiply together adjacent pairs. This saves two
pshufd instructions per 16 bytes processed, and the ones that remain
are now better separated in the flow.
- Reassign register aliases to put the most frequently used variables in
%xmm0-%xmm7, which take fewer bytes to encode in many instructions.
- Replace the unnecessary T7 with T0.
- Replace the 'add $0x30, KEY' with base+displacement addressing, which
was already being used anyway in most cases.
nh_sse2() shrinks from 1038 bytes to 913 bytes, and a quick benchmark
(with AVX2 support disabled) shows 3% faster Adiantum encryption.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---
lib/crypto/x86/nh-sse2.S | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/crypto/x86/nh-sse2.S b/lib/crypto/x86/nh-sse2.S
index d36c0e6d5556..b3f17e1dfbdb 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/x86/nh-sse2.S
+++ b/lib/crypto/x86/nh-sse2.S
@@ -9,22 +9,21 @@
#include <linux/linkage.h>
-#define PASS0_SUMS %xmm0
-#define PASS1_SUMS %xmm1
-#define PASS2_SUMS %xmm2
-#define PASS3_SUMS %xmm3
-#define K0 %xmm4
-#define K1 %xmm5
-#define K2 %xmm6
-#define K3 %xmm7
-#define T0 %xmm8
-#define T1 %xmm9
-#define T2 %xmm10
-#define T3 %xmm11
-#define T4 %xmm12
-#define T5 %xmm13
-#define T6 %xmm14
-#define T7 %xmm15
+#define K0 %xmm0
+#define K1 %xmm1
+#define K2 %xmm2
+#define K3 %xmm3
+#define T0 %xmm4
+#define T1 %xmm5
+#define T2 %xmm6
+#define T3 %xmm7
+#define T4 %xmm8
+#define T5 %xmm9
+#define T6 %xmm10
+#define PASS0_SUMS %xmm11
+#define PASS1_SUMS %xmm12
+#define PASS2_SUMS %xmm13
+#define PASS3_SUMS %xmm14
#define KEY %rdi
#define MESSAGE %rsi
#define MESSAGE_LEN %rdx
@@ -36,9 +35,14 @@
movdqu \offset(MESSAGE), T1
// Load next key stride
- movdqu \offset(KEY), \k3
+ movdqu \offset+0x30(KEY), \k3
- // Add message words to key words
+ // Permute message and key words from (0, 1, 2, 3) to (0, 2, 1, 3).
+ // This puts the words that NH multiplies together next to each other.
+ pshufd $0xd8, T1, T1
+ pshufd $0xd8, \k3, \k3
+
+ // Add permuted message words to permuted key words
movdqa T1, T2
movdqa T1, T3
paddd T1, \k0 // reuse k0 to avoid a move
@@ -46,19 +50,15 @@
paddd \k2, T2
paddd \k3, T3
- // Multiply 32x32 => 64 and accumulate
- pshufd $0x10, \k0, T4
- pshufd $0x32, \k0, \k0
- pshufd $0x10, T1, T5
- pshufd $0x32, T1, T1
- pshufd $0x10, T2, T6
- pshufd $0x32, T2, T2
- pshufd $0x10, T3, T7
- pshufd $0x32, T3, T3
+ // Multiply 32x32 (adjacent pairs) => 64 and accumulate
+ pshufd $0x31, \k0, T4
+ pshufd $0x31, T1, T5
+ pshufd $0x31, T2, T6
+ pshufd $0x31, T3, T0
pmuludq T4, \k0
pmuludq T5, T1
pmuludq T6, T2
- pmuludq T7, T3
+ pmuludq T0, T3
paddq \k0, PASS0_SUMS
paddq T1, PASS1_SUMS
paddq T2, PASS2_SUMS
@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(nh_sse2)
movdqu 0x00(KEY), K0
movdqu 0x10(KEY), K1
movdqu 0x20(KEY), K2
- add $0x30, KEY
+ pshufd $0xd8, K0, K0
+ pshufd $0xd8, K1, K1
+ pshufd $0xd8, K2, K2
pxor PASS0_SUMS, PASS0_SUMS
pxor PASS1_SUMS, PASS1_SUMS
pxor PASS2_SUMS, PASS2_SUMS
base-commit: 9fbbbaefd5f95551da18426c200cf41e1b4255a1
--
2.56.0
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