It appears that the performance of 'vpgatherdd' is suboptimal for this kind of workload (tested on Core i5-4570) and causes blowfish-avx2 to be significantly slower than blowfish-amd64. So disable the AVX2 implementation to avoid performance regressions. Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@xxxxxx> --- crypto/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index 678a6ed..8ca52c5 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -842,6 +842,7 @@ config CRYPTO_BLOWFISH_X86_64 config CRYPTO_BLOWFISH_AVX2_X86_64 tristate "Blowfish cipher algorithm (x86_64/AVX2)" depends on X86 && 64BIT + depends on BROKEN select CRYPTO_ALGAPI select CRYPTO_CRYPTD select CRYPTO_ABLK_HELPER_X86 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
