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[2/6] crypto: sha512-mb - Enable SHA512 multibuffer support

Message ID 1467048009-2826-3-git-send-email-megha.dey@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Herbert Xu
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Dey, Megha June 27, 2016, 5:20 p.m. UTC 
From: Megha Dey <megha.dey@linux.intel.com>

Add the config CRYPTO_SHA512_MB which will enable the computation
using the SHA512 multi-buffer algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Megha Dey <megha.dey@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
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 crypto/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
index d8cc0f0..62fcbb9 100644
--- a/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -720,6 +720,22 @@  config CRYPTO_SHA256_MB
 	  lanes remain unfilled, a flush operation will be initiated to
 	  process the crypto jobs, adding a slight latency.
 
+config CRYPTO_SHA512_MB
+        tristate "SHA512 digest algorithm (x86_64 Multi-Buffer, Experimental)"
+        depends on X86 && 64BIT
+        select CRYPTO_SHA512
+        select CRYPTO_HASH
+        select CRYPTO_MCRYPTD
+        help
+          SHA-512 secure hash standard (FIPS 180-1/DFIPS 180-2) implemented
+          using multi-buffer technique.  This algorithm computes on
+          multiple data lanes concurrently with SIMD instructions for
+          better throughput.  It should not be enabled by default but
+          used when there is significant amount of work to keep the keep
+          the data lanes filled to get performance benefit.  If the data
+          lanes remain unfilled, a flush operation will be initiated to
+          process the crypto jobs, adding a slight latency.
+
 config CRYPTO_SHA256
 	tristate "SHA224 and SHA256 digest algorithm"
 	select CRYPTO_HASH