Re: Kernel crypto API: cryptoperf performance measurement

[Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>]

Am Dienstag, 19. August 2014, 10:17:36 schrieb Jussi Kivilinna:

Hi Jussi,

> Hello,
> 
> On 2014-08-17 18:55, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > during playing around with the kernel crypto API, I implemented a
> > performance measurement tool kit for the various kernel crypto API cipher
> > types. The cryptoperf tool kit is provided in [1].
> > 
> > Comments are welcome.
> 
> Your results are quite slow compared to, for example "cryptsetup
> benchmark", which uses kernel crypto from userspace.
> 
> With Intel i5-2450M (turbo enabled), I get:
> 
> #  Algorithm | Key |  Encryption |  Decryption
>      aes-cbc   128b   524,0 MiB/s  11909,1 MiB/s
>  serpent-cbc   128b    60,9 MiB/s   219,4 MiB/s
>  twofish-cbc   128b   143,4 MiB/s   240,3 MiB/s
>      aes-cbc   256b   330,4 MiB/s  1242,8 MiB/s
>  serpent-cbc   256b    66,1 MiB/s   220,3 MiB/s
>  twofish-cbc   256b   143,5 MiB/s   221,8 MiB/s
>      aes-xts   256b  1268,7 MiB/s  4193,0 MiB/s
>  serpent-xts   256b   234,8 MiB/s   224,6 MiB/s
>  twofish-xts   256b   253,5 MiB/s   254,7 MiB/s
>      aes-xts   512b  2535,0 MiB/s  2945,0 MiB/s
>  serpent-xts   512b   274,2 MiB/s   242,3 MiB/s
>  twofish-xts   512b   250,0 MiB/s   245,8 MiB/s

One to four GB per second for XTS? 12 GB per second for AES CBC? Somehow that 
does not sound right.
> 
> > In general, the results are as expected, i.e. the assembler
> > implementations
> > are faster than the pure C implementations. However, there are curious
> > results which probably should be checked by the maintainers of the
> > respective ciphers (hoping that my tool works correctly ;-) ):
> > 
> > ablkcipher
> > ----------
> > 
> > - cryptd is slower by factor 10 across the board
> > 
> > blkcipher
> > ---------
> > 
> > - Blowfish x86_64 assembler together with the generic C block chaining
> > modes is significantly slower than Blowfish implemented in generic C
> > 
> > - Blowfish x86_64 assembler in ECB is significantly slower than generic C
> > Blowfish ECB
> > 
> > - Serpent assembler implementations are not significantly faster than
> > generic C implementations
> > 
> > - AES-NI ECB, LRW, CTR is significantly slower than AES i586 assembler.
> > 
> > - AES-NI ECB, LRW, CTR is not significantly faster than AES generic C
> 
> Quite many assembly implementations get speed up from processing
> parallel block cipher blocks, which modes of operation that (CTR, XTS,
> LWR, CBC(dec)). For small buffer sizes, these implementations will use
> the non-parallel implementation of cipher.

Thanks for the pointer, I will rerun my tests with multiple of the block size 
(e.g. 1024 blocks).
-- 
Ciao
Stephan