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Process small blocks using the fallback cipher, as a workaround for an observed failure (DMA-related, apparently) when computing the GCM ghash key. This brings a speed gain as well, since it avoids the latency of using the hardware engine to process small blocks. Using software for all 16-byte requests would be enough to make GCM work, but to increase performance, a larger threshold would be better. Measuring the performance of supported ciphers with openssl speed, software matches hardware at around 768-1024 bytes. Considering the 256-bit ciphers, software is 2-3 times faster than qce at 256-bytes, 30% faster at 512, and about even at 768-bytes. With 128-bit keys, the break-even point would be around 1024-bytes. This adds the 'aes_sw_max_len' parameter, to set the largest request length processed by the software fallback. Its default is being set to 512 bytes, a little lower than the break-even point, to balance the cost in CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Eneas U de Queiroz <cotequeiroz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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