On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 03:26:52PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
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> The new x86 SHA extensions provide new hardware accelerated instructions
> for computing SHA1 and SHA256 hashes. This patch series provide the
> assembly routines for SHA1 and SHA256 computation using these new
> instructions to the ker
From: Tim Chen
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:26:52 -0700
>
> The new x86 SHA extensions provide new hardware accelerated instructions
> for computing SHA1 and SHA256 hashes. This patch series provide the
> assembly routines for SHA1 and SHA256 computation using these new
> instructions to the kernel
The new x86 SHA extensions provide new hardware accelerated instructions
for computing SHA1 and SHA256 hashes. This patch series provide the
assembly routines for SHA1 and SHA256 computation using these new
instructions to the kernel crypto library. For 4K data blocks, we've
seen up to 3.6x speed
