netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/7] crypto: aesni: provide generic gcm(aes)

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Date:   Thu, 18 May 2017 13:28:00 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] crypto: aesni: provide generic gcm(aes)

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 06:11:55PM +0200, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> The current aesni AES-GCM implementation only offers support for
> rfc4106(gcm(aes)).  This makes some things a little bit simpler
> (handling of associated data and authentication tag), but it means
> that non-IPsec users of gcm(aes) have to rely on
> gcm_base(ctr-aes-aesni,ghash-clmulni), which is much slower.
> 
> This patchset adds handling of all valid authentication tag lengths
> and of any associated data length to the assembly code, and exposes a
> generic gcm(aes) AEAD algorithm to the crypto API.
> 
> With these patches, performance of MACsec on a single core increases
> by 40% (from 4.5Gbps to around 6.3Gbps).

All patches applied.  Thanks.
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