Re: [PATCH 2/3] [CRYPTO] Add optimized SHA-1 implementation for i486+

Matt Mackall
2007-06-10T17:34:39Z

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:47:19PM -0400, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:33:25PM -0400, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> >>It's not just the loop unrolling; it's the register allocation and
> >>spilling. For comparison, I built SHATransform() from the
> >>drivers/char/random.c in 2.6.11, using gcc 3.3.5 with -O2 and
> >>SHA_CODE_SIZE == 3 (i.e., fully unrolled); I'm guessing this is pretty
> >>close to what you tested back then. The resulting code is 49% MOV
> >>instructions, and 80% of *those* involve memory. gcc4 is somewhat
> >>better, but it still spills a whole lot, both for the 2.6.11 unrolled
> >>code and for the current lib/sha1.c.
> >
> >Wait, your benchmark is comparing against the unrolled code?
>
> No, it's comparing the current lib/sha1.c to the optimized code in the
> patch. I was just pointing out that the unrolled code you were likely
> testing against, back then, may not have been very good. (Though I
> assumed that you were talking about the unrolled code in random.c, not
> the code in CryptoAPI, so that might change the numbers some. It
> appears from the post you linked below that the unrolled CryptoAPI code
> still beat the rolled version?)

That predates lib/sha1.c by a while.

> >How big is the -code- footprint?
>
> About 3700 bytes for the 32-bit version of sha_transform().

lib/sha1.c's footprint is... 621 bytes today. Huh. That's up from 466
bytes when it was introduced and no one's touched it:

http://search.luky.org/ML/linux-kernel.2005/msg06648.html

Stupid compilers.

But anyway. Cache footprint matters. The two big users of SHA1 in the
kernel are /dev/random and IPSec, both of which typically operate on
small chunks of data.

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