Hey Ted, On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think this opens up a big window for optimizing it even > further. I optimized it a bit further and siphash is now the clear winner over chacha: [ 1.784801] random benchmark!! [ 1.785161] get_random_long # cycles: 415983 [ 1.785595] get_random_long_chacha # cycles: 242047 [ 1.785997] get_random_long_siphash # cycles: 137130 [ 1.787450] get_random_bytes # cycles: 1452985 [ 1.787947] get_random_int # cycles: 343323 [ 1.788282] get_random_int_chacha # cycles: 170767 [ 1.788656] get_random_int_siphash # cycles: 86384 [ 1.789764] get_random_bytes # cycles: 2279519 And even still, there is more that could be optimized. Therefore, I'll continue to keep this patch in the series and will CC you on the next patch set that goes out. Jason -- 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
