On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:02:55PM -0500, Joel A Fernandes wrote:
> Calling runtime PM API for every block causes serious perf hit to
> crypto operations that are done on a long buffer.
> As crypto is performed on a page boundary, encrypting large buffers can
> cause a series of crypto operations divided by page. The runtime PM API
> is also called those many times.
> 
> We call runtime_pm_get_sync only at beginning on the session (cra_init)
> and runtime_pm_put at the end. This result in upto a 50% speedup as below.
> This doesn't make the driver to keep the system awake as runtime get/put
> is only called during a crypto session which completes usually quickly.
> 
> Before:
> root@beagleboard:~# time -v openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 13310 aes-128-cbc's in 0.01s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 13040 aes-128-cbc's in 0.04s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 9134 aes-128-cbc's in 0.03s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 8939 aes-128-cbc's in 0.01s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 4299 aes-128-cbc's in 0.00s
> 
> After:
> root@beagleboard:~# time -v openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 18911 aes-128-cbc's in 0.02s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 18878 aes-128-cbc's in 0.02s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 11878 aes-128-cbc's in 0.10s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 11538 aes-128-cbc's in 0.05s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 4857 aes-128-cbc's in 0.03s
> 
> While at it, also drop enter and exit pr_debugs, in related code. tracers
> can be used for that.
> 
> Tested on a Beaglebone (AM335x SoC) board.
> 
> v3 changes:
> Refreshed patch on kernel v3.10-rc3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel A Fernandes <joelag...@ti.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks!
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