linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: serpent - add x86

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2012 21:53:33 +0300
From:	Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Johannes Goetzfried 
	<Johannes.Goetzfried@...ormatik.stud.uni-erlangen.de>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Tilo Müller 
	<Tilo.Mueller@...ormatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: serpent - add x86_64/avx assembler
 implementation

Quoting Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>:

>> I agree with that. Currently when I boot my PC with a new 3.4 kernel all the
>> ciphers from the intel-aesni module get loaded whether I need them  
>> or not. As
>> Jussi stated most people using distros probably won't need the
>> serpent-avx-x86_64 module get loaded automatically, so it's  
>> probably better to
>> leave it that way.
>
> That means you got a 50% chance to use the wrong serpent.
>
> This was a continuous problem with AESNI and the accelerated CRC,
> that is why the cpuid probing was implemented.
>
> Without some form of auto probing you may as well not bother with
> the optimization.
>
> -Andi

Hm.. should not the i586/x86_64 assembler implementations of AES etc  
be autoloaded then too?

-Jussi

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