crypto: twofish-x86_64-3way - blacklist pentium4 and atom

Performance of twofish-x86_64-3way on Intel Pentium 4 and Atom is lower than
of twofish-x86_64 module. So blacklist these CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue_3way.c b/arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue_3way.c
index 7fee8c152f93..0afd134d8c9c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue_3way.c
+++ b/arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue_3way.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
  *
  */
 
+#include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <linux/crypto.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
@@ -637,10 +638,56 @@ static struct crypto_alg blk_xts_alg = {
         },
 };
 
+static bool is_blacklisted_cpu(void)
+{
+        if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
+                return false;
+
+        if (boot_cpu_data.x86 == 0x06 &&
+                (boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x1c ||
+                 boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x26 ||
+                 boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x36)) {
+                /*
+                 * On Atom, twofish-3way is slower than original assembler
+                 * implementation. Twofish-3way trades off some performance in
+                 * storing blocks in 64bit registers to allow three blocks to
+                 * be processed parallel. Parallel operation then allows gaining
+                 * more performance than was trade off, on out-of-order CPUs.
+                 * However Atom does not benefit from this parallellism and
+                 * should be blacklisted.
+                 */
+                return true;
+        }
+
+        if (boot_cpu_data.x86 == 0x0f) {
+                /*
+                 * On Pentium 4, twofish-3way is slower than original assembler
+                 * implementation because excessive uses of 64bit rotate and
+                 * left-shifts (which are really slow on P4) needed to store and
+                 * handle 128bit block in two 64bit registers.
+                 */
+                return true;
+        }
+
+        return false;
+}
+
+static int force;
+module_param(force, int, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(force, "Force module load, ignore CPU blacklist");
+
 int __init init(void)
 {
         int err;
 
+        if (!force && is_blacklisted_cpu()) {
+                printk(KERN_INFO
+                        "twofish-x86_64-3way: performance on this CPU "
+                        "would be suboptimal: disabling "
+                        "twofish-x86_64-3way.\n");
+                return -ENODEV;
+        }
+
         err = crypto_register_alg(&blk_ecb_alg);
         if (err)
                 goto ecb_err;