From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932937AbcGGBT0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2016 21:19:26 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50021 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756075AbcGGBTX (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2016 21:19:23 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Anton Blanchard , Herbert Xu Subject: [PATCH 4.6 14/31] crypto: vmx - Increase priority of aes-cbc cipher Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 18:19:04 -0700 Message-Id: <20160707011558.096223110@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.9.0 In-Reply-To: <20160707011557.518104444@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160707011557.518104444@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Anton Blanchard commit 12d3f49e1ffbbf8cbbb60acae5a21103c5c841ac upstream. All of the VMX AES ciphers (AES, AES-CBC and AES-CTR) are set at priority 1000. Unfortunately this means we never use AES-CBC and AES-CTR, because the base AES-CBC cipher that is implemented on top of AES inherits its priority. To fix this, AES-CBC and AES-CTR have to be a higher priority. Set them to 2000. Testing on a POWER8 with: cryptsetup benchmark --cipher aes --key-size 256 Shows decryption speed increase from 402.4 MB/s to 3069.2 MB/s, over 7x faster. Thanks to Mike Strosaker for helping me debug this issue. Fixes: 8c755ace357c ("crypto: vmx - Adding CBC routines for VMX module") Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ struct crypto_alg p8_aes_cbc_alg = { .cra_name = "cbc(aes)", .cra_driver_name = "p8_aes_cbc", .cra_module = THIS_MODULE, - .cra_priority = 1000, + .cra_priority = 2000, .cra_type = &crypto_blkcipher_type, .cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER | CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK, .cra_alignmask = 0, --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ struct crypto_alg p8_aes_ctr_alg = { .cra_name = "ctr(aes)", .cra_driver_name = "p8_aes_ctr", .cra_module = THIS_MODULE, - .cra_priority = 1000, + .cra_priority = 2000, .cra_type = &crypto_blkcipher_type, .cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER | CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK, .cra_alignmask = 0,