Patch "crypto: crypto4xx - increase context and scatter ring buffer elements" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    crypto: crypto4xx - increase context and scatter ring buffer elements

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     crypto-crypto4xx-increase-context-and-scatter-ring-buffer-elements.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Dec 20 18:17:52 CET 2017
From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 01:00:08 +0200
Subject: crypto: crypto4xx - increase context and scatter ring buffer elements

From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 778f81d6cdb7d25360f082ac0384d5103f04eca5 ]

If crypto4xx is used in conjunction with dm-crypt, the available
ring buffer elements are not enough to handle the load properly.

On an aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 encrypted swap partition the read
performance is abyssal: (tested with hdparm -t)

/dev/mapper/swap_crypt:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  14 MB in  3.68 seconds =   3.81 MB/sec

The patch increases both PPC4XX_NUM_SD and PPC4XX_NUM_PD to 256.
This improves the performance considerably:

/dev/mapper/swap_crypt:
 Timing buffered disk reads: 104 MB in  3.03 seconds =  34.31 MB/sec

Furthermore, PPC4XX_LAST_SD, PPC4XX_LAST_GD and PPC4XX_LAST_PD
can be easily calculated from their respective PPC4XX_NUM_*
constant.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.h |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.h
+++ b/drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.h
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@
 #define PPC405EX_CE_RESET                       0x00000008
 
 #define CRYPTO4XX_CRYPTO_PRIORITY		300
-#define PPC4XX_LAST_PD				63
-#define PPC4XX_NUM_PD				64
-#define PPC4XX_LAST_GD				1023
+#define PPC4XX_NUM_PD				256
+#define PPC4XX_LAST_PD				(PPC4XX_NUM_PD - 1)
 #define PPC4XX_NUM_GD				1024
-#define PPC4XX_LAST_SD				63
-#define PPC4XX_NUM_SD				64
+#define PPC4XX_LAST_GD				(PPC4XX_NUM_GD - 1)
+#define PPC4XX_NUM_SD				256
+#define PPC4XX_LAST_SD				(PPC4XX_NUM_SD - 1)
 #define PPC4XX_SD_BUFFER_SIZE			2048
 
 #define PD_ENTRY_INUSE				1


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chunkeey@gmail.com are

queue-4.14/crypto-crypto4xx-increase-context-and-scatter-ring-buffer-elements.patch