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crypto: twofish-x86_64-3way - blacklist pentium4 and atom
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Performance of twofish-x86_64-3way on Intel Pentium 4 and Atom is lower than
of twofish-x86_64 module. So blacklist these CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
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jkivilin authored and herbertx committed Jan 13, 2012
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*
*/

#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <linux/crypto.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
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},
};

static bool is_blacklisted_cpu(void)
{
if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
return false;

if (boot_cpu_data.x86 == 0x06 &&
(boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x1c ||
boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x26 ||
boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x36)) {
/*
* On Atom, twofish-3way is slower than original assembler
* implementation. Twofish-3way trades off some performance in
* storing blocks in 64bit registers to allow three blocks to
* be processed parallel. Parallel operation then allows gaining
* more performance than was trade off, on out-of-order CPUs.
* However Atom does not benefit from this parallellism and
* should be blacklisted.
*/
return true;
}

if (boot_cpu_data.x86 == 0x0f) {
/*
* On Pentium 4, twofish-3way is slower than original assembler
* implementation because excessive uses of 64bit rotate and
* left-shifts (which are really slow on P4) needed to store and
* handle 128bit block in two 64bit registers.
*/
return true;
}

return false;
}

static int force;
module_param(force, int, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(force, "Force module load, ignore CPU blacklist");

int __init init(void)
{
int err;

if (!force && is_blacklisted_cpu()) {
printk(KERN_INFO
"twofish-x86_64-3way: performance on this CPU "
"would be suboptimal: disabling "
"twofish-x86_64-3way.\n");
return -ENODEV;
}

err = crypto_register_alg(&blk_ecb_alg);
if (err)
goto ecb_err;
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