I noticed that by factoring out common rounds from the
branches of the if-statements in the encryption and
decryption functions, the executable file size goes down
significantly, for crypto/cast5.ko from 26688 bytes
to 24336 bytes (amd64).
On my test system, I saw a slight speedup. This is the
first time I'm doing such a benchmark - I found a similar
one on the crypto mailing list, and I hope I did it right?
Before:
# cryptsetup create dm-test /dev/hda2 -c cast5-cbc-plain -s 128
Passsatz eingeben:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dm-test bs=1M count=50
52428800 Bytes (52 MB) kopiert, 2,43484 s, 21,5 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dm-test bs=1M count=50
52428800 Bytes (52 MB) kopiert, 2,4089 s, 21,8 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dm-test bs=1M count=50
52428800 Bytes (52 MB) kopiert, 2,41091 s, 21,7 MB/s
After:
# cryptsetup create dm-test /dev/hda2 -c cast5-cbc-plain -s 128
Passsatz eingeben:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dm-test bs=1M count=50
52428800 Bytes (52 MB) kopiert, 2,38128 s, 22,0 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dm-test bs=1M count=50
52428800 Bytes (52 MB) kopiert, 2,29486 s, 22,8 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dm-test bs=1M count=50
52428800 Bytes (52 MB) kopiert, 2,37162 s, 22,1 MB/s
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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