[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] openssl: Enable assembler optimizations for aarch64

Baptiste Jonglez baptiste.jonglez at imag.fr
Fri Oct 27 11:45:53 PDT 2017


From: Baptiste Jonglez <git at bitsofnetworks.org>

OpenSSL is built with the generic linux settings for most targets,
including aarch64.  These generic settings are designed for 32-bit CPU and
provide no assembler optmization: this is widely suboptimal for aarch64.

This patch simply switches to the aarch64 settings that are already
available in OpenSSL.

Here is the output of "openssl speed" before the optimization, with
"(...)" representing build flags that didn't change:

    OpenSSL 1.0.2l  25 May 2017
    options:bn(64,32) rc4(ptr,char) des(idx,cisc,2,int) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr)
    compiler: aarch64-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc  (...)

And after this patch, OpenSSL uses 64 bit mode and assembler optimizations:

    OpenSSL 1.0.2l  25 May 2017
    options:bn(64,64) rc4(ptr,char) des(idx,cisc,2,int) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr)
    compiler: aarch64-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc  (...)  -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM

Here are some benchmarks on a pine64+ running latest LEDE master r5142-20d363aed3:

    before# openssl speed sha aes blowfish
    The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
    type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
    sha1              3918.89k     9982.43k    19148.03k    24933.03k    27325.78k
    sha256            4604.51k    10240.64k    17472.51k    21355.18k    22801.07k
    sha512            3662.19k    14539.41k    21443.16k    29544.11k    33177.60k
    blowfish cbc     16266.63k    16940.86k    17176.92k    17237.33k    17252.35k
    aes-128 cbc      19712.95k    21447.40k    22091.09k    22258.35k    22304.09k
    aes-192 cbc      17680.12k    19064.47k    19572.14k    19703.13k    19737.26k
    aes-256 cbc      15986.67k    17132.48k    17537.28k    17657.17k    17689.26k

    after# openssl speed sha aes blowfish
    type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
    sha1              6770.87k    26172.80k    86878.38k   205649.58k   345978.20k
    sha256           20913.93k    74663.85k   184658.18k   290891.09k   351032.66k
    sha512            7633.10k    30110.14k    50083.24k    71883.43k    82485.25k
    blowfish cbc     16224.93k    16933.55k    17173.76k    17234.94k    17252.35k
    aes-128 cbc      19425.74k    21193.31k    22065.74k    22304.77k    22380.54k
    aes-192 cbc      17452.29k    18883.84k    19536.90k    19741.70k    19800.06k
    aes-256 cbc      15815.89k    17003.01k    17530.03k    17695.40k    17746.60k

For some reason AES and blowfish do not benefit, but SHA performance
improves between 1.7x and 15x.  SHA256 clearly benefits the most from the
optimization (4.5x on small blocks, 15x on large blocks!).

When using EVP (with "openssl speed -evp <algo>"):

    # Before, EVP mode
    type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
    sha1              3824.46k    10049.66k    19170.56k    24947.03k    27325.78k
    sha256            3368.33k     8511.15k    16061.44k    20772.52k    22721.88k
    sha512            2845.23k    11381.57k    19467.69k    28512.26k    33008.30k
    bf-cbc           15146.74k    16623.83k    17092.01k    17211.39k    17249.62k
    aes-128-cbc      17873.03k    20870.61k    21933.65k    22216.36k    22301.35k
    aes-192-cbc      16184.18k    18607.15k    19447.13k    19670.02k    19737.26k
    aes-256-cbc      14774.06k    16757.25k    17457.58k    17639.42k    17686.53k

    # After, EVP mode
    type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
    sha1              7056.97k    27142.10k    89515.86k   209155.41k   347419.99k
    sha256            7745.70k    29750.06k    95341.48k   211001.69k   332376.75k
    sha512            4550.47k    18086.06k    39997.10k    65880.75k    81431.21k
    bf-cbc           15129.20k    16619.03k    17090.56k    17212.76k    17246.89k
    aes-128-cbc      99619.74k   269032.34k   450214.23k   567353.00k   613933.06k
    aes-192-cbc      93180.74k   231017.79k   361766.66k   433671.51k   461731.16k
    aes-256-cbc      89343.23k   209858.58k   310160.04k   362234.88k   380878.85k

Blowfish does not seem to have assembler optimization at all, and SHA
still benefits (between 1.6x and 14.5x) but is generally slower than in
non-EVP mode.

However, AES performance is improved between 5.5x and 27.5x, which is
really impressive!  For aes-128-cbc on large blocks, a core i7-6600U
@2.60GHz is only twice as fast...

Signed-off-by: Baptiste Jonglez <git at bitsofnetworks.org>
---
 package/libs/openssl/Makefile                            | 4 +++-
 package/libs/openssl/patches/110-optimize-for-size.patch | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package/libs/openssl/Makefile b/package/libs/openssl/Makefile
index 7707c19431..d7037cb7c1 100644
--- a/package/libs/openssl/Makefile
+++ b/package/libs/openssl/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ PKG_NAME:=openssl
 PKG_BASE:=1.0.2
 PKG_BUGFIX:=l
 PKG_VERSION:=$(PKG_BASE)$(PKG_BUGFIX)
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 PKG_USE_MIPS16:=0
 
 PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=0
@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ else
   OPENSSL_OPTIONS+=no-sse2
   ifeq ($(CONFIG_mips)$(CONFIG_mipsel),y)
     OPENSSL_TARGET:=linux-mips-openwrt
+  else ifeq ($(CONFIG_aarch64),y)
+    OPENSSL_TARGET:=linux-aarch64-openwrt
   else ifeq ($(CONFIG_arm)$(CONFIG_armeb),y)
     OPENSSL_TARGET:=linux-armv4-openwrt
   else
diff --git a/package/libs/openssl/patches/110-optimize-for-size.patch b/package/libs/openssl/patches/110-optimize-for-size.patch
index 0f174a3469..d6d4a21111 100644
--- a/package/libs/openssl/patches/110-optimize-for-size.patch
+++ b/package/libs/openssl/patches/110-optimize-for-size.patch
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 --- a/Configure
 +++ b/Configure
-@@ -470,6 +470,12 @@ my %table=(
+@@ -470,6 +470,13 @@ my %table=(
  "linux-alpha-ccc","ccc:-fast -readonly_strings -DL_ENDIAN::-D_REENTRANT:::SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_PTR DES_RISC1 DES_UNROLL:${alpha_asm}",
  "linux-alpha+bwx-ccc","ccc:-fast -readonly_strings -DL_ENDIAN::-D_REENTRANT:::SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_PTR DES_RISC1 DES_UNROLL:${alpha_asm}",
  
 +# OpenWrt targets
 +"linux-armv4-openwrt","gcc:-DTERMIOS \$(OPENWRT_OPTIMIZATION_FLAGS) -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall::-D_REENTRANT::-ldl:BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${armv4_asm}:dlfcn:linux-shared:-fPIC::.so.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR)",
++"linux-aarch64-openwrt","gcc:-DTERMIOS \$(OPENWRT_OPTIMIZATION_FLAGS) -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall::-D_REENTRANT::-ldl:SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${aarch64_asm}:linux64:dlfcn:linux-shared:-fPIC::.so.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR)",
 +"linux-x86_64-openwrt",	"gcc:-m64 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIOS \$(OPENWRT_OPTIMIZATION_FLAGS) -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall::-D_REENTRANT::-ldl:SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_UNROLL:${x86_64_asm}:elf:dlfcn:linux-shared:-fPIC:-m64:.so.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR):::64",
 +"linux-mips-openwrt","gcc:-DTERMIOS \$(OPENWRT_OPTIMIZATION_FLAGS) -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall::-D_REENTRANT::-ldl:BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${mips32_asm}:o32:dlfcn:linux-shared:-fPIC::.so.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR)",
 +"linux-generic-openwrt","gcc:-DTERMIOS \$(OPENWRT_OPTIMIZATION_FLAGS) -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall::-D_REENTRANT::-ldl:BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${no_asm}:dlfcn:linux-shared:-fPIC::.so.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR)",
-- 
2.11.0




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