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[4/4] crypto/arm64: sha2 - reduce performance impact of NEON yield checks

Message ID 20180724171224.17363-5-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
State New
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Series crypto/arm64: reduce impact of NEON yield checks | expand

Commit Message

Ard Biesheuvel July 24, 2018, 5:12 p.m. UTC 
Only perform the NEON yield check for every 4 blocks of input, to
prevent taking a considerable performance hit on cores with very
fast crypto instructions and comparatively slow memory accesses,
such as the Cortex-A53.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

---
 arch/arm64/crypto/sha2-ce-core.S | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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2.11.0
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/crypto/sha2-ce-core.S b/arch/arm64/crypto/sha2-ce-core.S
index cd8b36412469..201a33ff6830 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/crypto/sha2-ce-core.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/crypto/sha2-ce-core.S
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@  CPU_LE(	rev32		v19.16b, v19.16b	)
 	add		dgav.4s, dgav.4s, dg0v.4s
 	add		dgbv.4s, dgbv.4s, dg1v.4s
 
+	tst		w21, #0x3		// yield only every 4 blocks
+	b.ne		1b
+
 	/* handled all input blocks? */
 	cbz		w21, 3f