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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
	WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn>,
	Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LoongArch: vDSO: Tune the chacha20 implementation
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:11:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zu2Qif3n7oIMweJ2@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240919091359.7023-1-xry111@xry111.site>

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 05:13:59PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> As Christophe pointed out, tuning the chacha20 implementation by
> scheduling the instructions like what GCC does can improve the
> performance.
> 
> The tuning does not introduce too much complexity (basically it's just
> reordering some instructions).  And the tuning does not hurt readibility
> too much: actually the tuned code looks even more similar to a
> textbook-style implementation based on 128-bit vectors.  So overall it's
> a good deal to me.
> 
> Tested with vdso_test_getchacha and benched with vdso_test_getrandom.
> On a LA664 the speedup is 5%, and I expect a larger speedup on LA[2-4]64
> with a lower issue rate.
> 
> Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/77655d9e-fc05-4300-8f0d-7b2ad840d091@csgroup.eu/
> Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>

That seems like a reasonable optimization to me. I'll queue it up in
random.git and send it in my pull next week.

Thanks.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-20 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-19  9:13 [PATCH] LoongArch: vDSO: Tune the chacha20 implementation Xi Ruoyao
2024-09-20 15:11 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2024-09-23  7:15 ` Huacai Chen
2024-09-23  8:06   ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-09-23 12:48     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-09-24  7:12       ` Huacai Chen

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