On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:20:09 GMT, Anthony Scarpino <ascarp...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

>> I would like a review of an update to the GCM code.  A recent report showed 
>> that GCM memory usage for TLS was very large.  This was a result of in-place 
>> buffers, which TLS uses, and how the code handled the combined intrinsic 
>> method during decryption.  A temporary buffer was used because the combined 
>> intrinsic does gctr before ghash which results in a bad tag.  The fix is to 
>> not use the combined intrinsic during in-place decryption and depend on the 
>> individual GHASH and CounterMode intrinsics.  Direct ByteBuffers are not 
>> affected as they are not used by the intrinsics directly.
>> 
>> The reduction in the memory usage boosted performance back to where it was 
>> before despite using slower intrinsics (gctr & ghash individually).  The 
>> extra memory allocation for the temporary buffer out-weighted the faster 
>> intrinsic.
>> 
>> 
>>     JDK 17:   122913.554 ops/sec
>>     JDK 19:    94885.008 ops/sec
>>     Post fix: 122735.804 ops/sec 
>> 
>> There is no regression test because this is a memory change and test 
>> coverage already existing.
>
> Anthony Scarpino has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   comment cleanup & finesse ByteBuffer implGCMCrypt better

src/java.base/share/classes/com/sun/crypto/provider/GaloisCounterMode.java line 
583:

> 581:      * to avoid combined intrinsic, call GHASH directly before GCTR to 
> avoid
> 582:      * a bad tag exception. This check is not performed here because it 
> would
> 583:      * impose a check every operation which is less efficient.

Missing "for" after "check"?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11121

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