linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH crypto] AES: Add support to Intel AES-NI instructions

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Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:38:01 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <linux-crypto@...breakpoint.cc>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH crypto] AES: Add support to Intel AES-NI
	instructions

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:21:06PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > a. Do not touch SSE state in soft_irq
> > b. Disable/restore soft_irq in kernel_fpu_begin/kernel_fpu_end
> > c. Use a per-CPU data structure to save kernel FPU state during
> > soft_irq.
> > 
> > The mothod a is used in patch.
> 
> Could you run the tcrypt speed test on this and measure the
> difference between the native AES vs. the fallback? Depending
> on the difference I think we'd want to consider b) or c).

Here's another option

d. When we're in interrupt context, schedule a task to perform
the encryption asynchronously.

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