From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@mandelbit.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
"Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@mandelbit.com>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] lib/crypto: x86/chacha: Add 16-block AVX-512 implementation
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:47:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261025234758.3219829-1-antonio@mandelbit.com> (raw)
Hi all,
this series adds a 16-block ChaCha implementation for x86 using 512-bit
registers. It is preceded by a KUnit suite and benchmark for
chacha_crypt(), as lib/crypto has none for plain ChaCha yet.
Patch 1 stands on its own and passes with and without patch 2.
On AMD Zen 5, the new code doubles chacha_crypt() throughput for inputs
of 1 KiB and more, from about 5.2 GB/s to about 10.2 GB/s. It came out
of work on the OpenVPN data channel offload driver (ovpn), whose
ChaCha20-Poly1305 throughput is CPU-bound: in a VM benchmark it gained
about 10% at a 1500-byte MTU and 35% at 9000.
iPlease note that I could only measure Zen 5.
The new code is not used on the CPUs setting X86_FEATURE_PREFER_YMM
(Skylake-X, Ice Lake and Tiger Lake), but it is on
Rocket Lake, Sapphire Rapids and later, and on Zen 4, where 512-bit
operations are split into two halves. Numbers from any of those would be
very welcome.
Regards,
Antonio
Antonio Quartulli (2):
lib/crypto: tests: Add KUnit tests and benchmark for ChaCha
lib/crypto: x86/chacha: Add 16-block AVX-512 (zmm) implementation
lib/crypto/.kunitconfig | 1 +
lib/crypto/tests/Kconfig | 8 +
lib/crypto/tests/Makefile | 1 +
lib/crypto/tests/chacha_kunit.c | 269 +++++++++++++++
lib/crypto/x86/chacha-avx512vl-x86_64.S | 413 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
lib/crypto/x86/chacha.h | 29 +-
6 files changed, 719 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 lib/crypto/tests/chacha_kunit.c
base-commit: 20ec6916d8712e84d58e8c688a25cd368ddeb82b
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2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-25 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-25 23:47 Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2026-10-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib/crypto: tests: Add KUnit tests and benchmark for ChaCha Antonio Quartulli
2026-10-27 1:53 ` Eric Biggers
2026-10-27 8:51 ` Antonio Quartulli
2026-10-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] lib/crypto: x86/chacha: Add 16-block AVX-512 (zmm) implementation Antonio Quartulli
2026-10-26 0:35 ` [PATCH 0/2] lib/crypto: x86/chacha: Add 16-block AVX-512 implementation Eric Biggers
2026-10-26 0:46 ` Antonio Quartulli
2026-10-26 18:36 ` Eric Biggers
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