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From: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH crypto-next v2 1/3] crypto: poly1305 - add new 32 and 64-bit generic versions
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:03:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d55e0390c7187b09f820e123b05df1e5e680df0b.camel@strongswan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191212093008.217086-1-Jason@zx2c4.com>

Hi Jason,

> These two C implementations from Zinc -- a 32x32 one and a 64x64 one,
> depending on the platform -- come from Andrew Moon's public domain
> poly1305-donna portable code, modified for usage in the kernel. The
> precomputation in the 32-bit version and the use of 64x64 multiplies
> in the 64-bit version make these perform better than the code it
> replaces.

Can you provide some numbers to testify that? In my tests, the 32-bit
version gives me exact the same results. 

The 64-bit version is roughly 10% faster. However, what are the
platforms where the 64-bit version matters? Won't any SIMD version
outperform the 64-bit version anyway?

Martin


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-12 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-11 17:09 [PATCH crypto-next v1] crypto: poly1305 - add new 32 and 64-bit generic versions Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-11 19:06 ` Eric Biggers
2019-12-11 22:04   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-12  9:30 ` [PATCH crypto-next v2 1/3] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-12  9:30   ` [PATCH crypto-next v2 2/3] crypto: x86_64/poly1305 - add faster implementations Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-12 10:26     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-12 15:34     ` Martin Willi
2019-12-12 15:39       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-15 17:04         ` Andy Polyakov
2019-12-12  9:30   ` [PATCH crypto-next v2 3/3] crypto: arm/arm64/mips/poly1305 - remove redundant non-reduction from emit Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-12 14:59     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-12-12 12:03   ` Martin Willi [this message]
2019-12-12 13:08     ` [PATCH crypto-next v2 1/3] crypto: poly1305 - add new 32 and 64-bit generic versions Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-12 13:46       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-12 14:26         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-12-12 14:30           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-12 15:30             ` Martin Willi
2019-12-12 15:35               ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-13  3:28                 ` Eric Biggers
2019-12-14  8:56                   ` Herbert Xu
2019-12-14 12:21                     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-14 13:05                   ` Jason A. Donenfeld

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