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crypto: vmx - Increase priority of aes-cbc cipher

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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>
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Anton Blanchard 2016-06-10 16:47:03 +10:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent eda8951310
commit f6d06f1de8
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c
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@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ struct crypto_alg p8_aes_cbc_alg = {
.cra_name = "cbc(aes)",
.cra_driver_name = "p8_aes_cbc",
.cra_module = THIS_MODULE,
.cra_priority = 1000,
.cra_priority = 2000,
.cra_type = &crypto_blkcipher_type,
.cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER | CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK,
.cra_alignmask = 0,

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drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c
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@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ struct crypto_alg p8_aes_ctr_alg = {
.cra_name = "ctr(aes)",
.cra_driver_name = "p8_aes_ctr",
.cra_module = THIS_MODULE,
.cra_priority = 1000,
.cra_priority = 2000,
.cra_type = &crypto_blkcipher_type,
.cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER | CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK,
.cra_alignmask = 0,