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crypto: vmx - Increase priority of aes-cbc cipher
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 06:47:03 +0000 (16:47 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:31:12 +0000 (09:31 -0700)
commitf6d06f1de8b796339a52550976650ab9f991d24c
tree26cfe50a17bd8fc674b6b01cc25a78084c667c4a
parenteda89513103abe73ec650256e445c8515bc688b5
crypto: vmx - Increase priority of aes-cbc cipher

commit 12d3f49e1ffbbf8cbbb60acae5a21103c5c841ac upstream.

All of the VMX AES ciphers (AES, AES-CBC and AES-CTR) are set at
priority 1000. Unfortunately this means we never use AES-CBC and
AES-CTR, because the base AES-CBC cipher that is implemented on
top of AES inherits its priority.

To fix this, AES-CBC and AES-CTR have to be a higher priority. Set
them to 2000.

Testing on a POWER8 with:

cryptsetup benchmark --cipher aes --key-size 256

Shows decryption speed increase from 402.4 MB/s to 3069.2 MB/s,
over 7x faster. Thanks to Mike Strosaker for helping me debug
this issue.

Fixes: 8c755ace357c ("crypto: vmx - Adding CBC routines for VMX module")
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c
drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c