This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: crypto4xx - increase context and scatter ring buffer elements
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
crypto-crypto4xx-increase-context-and-scatter-ring-buffer-elements.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 09:02:40 CET 2017
From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 01:00:08 +0200
Subject: crypto: crypto4xx - increase context and scatter ring buffer elements
From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 778f81d6cdb7d25360f082ac0384d5103f04eca5 ]
If crypto4xx is used in conjunction with dm-crypt, the available
ring buffer elements are not enough to handle the load properly.
On an aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 encrypted swap partition the read
performance is abyssal: (tested with hdparm -t)
/dev/mapper/swap_crypt:
Timing buffered disk reads: 14 MB in 3.68 seconds = 3.81 MB/sec
The patch increases both PPC4XX_NUM_SD and PPC4XX_NUM_PD to 256.
This improves the performance considerably:
/dev/mapper/swap_crypt:
Timing buffered disk reads: 104 MB in 3.03 seconds = 34.31 MB/sec
Furthermore, PPC4XX_LAST_SD, PPC4XX_LAST_GD and PPC4XX_LAST_PD
can be easily calculated from their respective PPC4XX_NUM_*
constant.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.h | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.h
+++ b/drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.h
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@
#define PPC405EX_CE_RESET 0x00000008
#define CRYPTO4XX_CRYPTO_PRIORITY 300
-#define PPC4XX_LAST_PD 63
-#define PPC4XX_NUM_PD 64
-#define PPC4XX_LAST_GD 1023
+#define PPC4XX_NUM_PD 256
+#define PPC4XX_LAST_PD (PPC4XX_NUM_PD - 1)
#define PPC4XX_NUM_GD 1024
-#define PPC4XX_LAST_SD 63
-#define PPC4XX_NUM_SD 64
+#define PPC4XX_LAST_GD (PPC4XX_NUM_GD - 1)
+#define PPC4XX_NUM_SD 256
+#define PPC4XX_LAST_SD (PPC4XX_NUM_SD - 1)
#define PPC4XX_SD_BUFFER_SIZE 2048
#define PD_ENTRY_INUSE 1
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/crypto-crypto4xx-increase-context-and-scatter-ring-buffer-elements.patch