From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL 0/4] Crypto luks patches
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:26:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA_qsRbuwF3J0B0=fZkwKLT=NMg9hZP9UUM_g5V0X9xYEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191028154914.84821-1-berrange@redhat.com>
On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 15:58, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The following changes since commit 187f35512106501fe9a11057f4d8705431e0026d:
>
> Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-testing-next-251019-3' into staging (2019-10-26 10:13:48 +0100)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> https://github.com/berrange/qemu tags/crypto-luks-pull-request
>
> for you to fetch changes up to dc2207af2de162005f7e9e534850d07232290cee:
>
> crypto: add support for nettle's native XTS impl (2019-10-28 16:45:07 +0100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> crypto: improve performance of ciphers in XTS mode
>
> Currently QEMU uses its own XTS cipher mode, however, this has
> relatively poor performance.
>
> Gcrypt now includes its own XTS cipher which is at least x2 faster than
> what we get with QEMU's on Fedora/RHEL hosts. With gcrypt git master, a
> further x5-6 speed up is seen.
>
> This is essential for QEMU's LUKS performance to be viable.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
Applied, thanks.
Please update the changelog at https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/4.2
for any user-visible changes.
-- PMM
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-29 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-28 15:49 [PULL 0/4] Crypto luks patches Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-10-28 15:49 ` [PULL 1/4] tests: allow filtering crypto cipher benchmark tests Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-10-28 15:49 ` [PULL 2/4] tests: benchmark crypto with fixed data size, not time period Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-10-28 15:49 ` [PULL 3/4] crypto: add support for gcrypt's native XTS impl Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-10-28 15:49 ` [PULL 4/4] crypto: add support for nettle's " Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-10-30 14:21 ` Alex Bennée
2019-10-29 16:26 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
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