On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 at 15:31, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Unrolling the LOAD and BLEND loops improves performance by ~8% on x86_64
> (tested on Broadwell Xeon) while not increasing code size too much.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/crypto/sha256.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/crypto/sha256.c b/lib/crypto/sha256.c
> index e2e29d9b0ccd..cdef37c05972 100644
> --- a/lib/crypto/sha256.c
> +++ b/lib/crypto/sha256.c
> @@ -76,12 +76,28 @@ static void sha256_transform(u32 *state, const u8 *input, u32 *W)
> int i;
>
> /* load the input */
> - for (i = 0; i < 16; i++)
> - LOAD_OP(i, W, input);
> + for (i = 0; i < 16; i += 8) {
> + LOAD_OP(i + 0, W, input);
> + LOAD_OP(i + 1, W, input);
> + LOAD_OP(i + 2, W, input);
> + LOAD_OP(i + 3, W, input);
> + LOAD_OP(i + 4, W, input);
> + LOAD_OP(i + 5, W, input);
> + LOAD_OP(i + 6, W, input);
> + LOAD_OP(i + 7, W, input);
> + }
>
> /* now blend */
> - for (i = 16; i < 64; i++)
> - BLEND_OP(i, W);
> + for (i = 16; i < 64; i += 8) {
> + BLEND_OP(i + 0, W);
> + BLEND_OP(i + 1, W);
> + BLEND_OP(i + 2, W);
> + BLEND_OP(i + 3, W);
> + BLEND_OP(i + 4, W);
> + BLEND_OP(i + 5, W);
> + BLEND_OP(i + 6, W);
> + BLEND_OP(i + 7, W);
> + }
>
> /* load the state into our registers */
> a = state[0]; b = state[1]; c = state[2]; d = state[3];
> --
> 2.26.2
>
