crypto: x86/chacha20 - Add a 4-block AVX2 variant
This variant builds upon the idea of the 2-block AVX2 variant that shuffles words after each round. The shuffling has a rather high latency, so the arithmetic units are not optimally used. Given that we have plenty of registers in AVX, this version parallelizes the 2-block variant to do four blocks. While the first two blocks are shuffling, the CPU can do the XORing on the second two blocks and vice-versa, which makes this version much faster than the SSSE3 variant for four blocks. The latter is now mostly for systems that do not have AVX2, but there it is the work-horse, so we keep it in place. The partial XORing function trailer is very similar to the AVX2 2-block variant. While it could be shared, that code segment is rather short; profiling is also easier with the trailer integrated, so we keep it per function. Signed-off-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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