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Linux Patches To Unconditionally Enable Architecture-Optimized BLAKE2s Support
While Linus Torvalds doesn't too often like new kernel options being enabled by default, one area where it has proven beneficial and otherwise an oversight by those configuring their own kernel builds is the architecture-optimized crypto algorithm implementations
Eric Biggers who has been known for his relentless crypto kernel optimizations over the years sent out a new patch series on Wednesday to better clean-up the ChaCha and BLAKE2s code. We've learned this the hard way many times over the years: people regularly forget to enable the arch-optimized implementations of the crypto algorithms, resulting in significant performance being left on the table. In the case of the x86_64 optimized BLAKE2s, this allows for SSSE3 and AVX-512 usage for faster BLAKE2s cryptographic hashing performance.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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