crypto: arc4 - improve performance by using u32 for ctx and variables

This patch changes u8 in struct arc4_ctx and variables to u32 (as AMD seems
to have problem with u8 array). Below are tcrypt results of old 1-byte block
cipher versus ecb(arc4) with u8 and ecb(arc4) with u32.

tcrypt results, x86-64 (speed ratios: new-u32/old, new-u8/old):

                  u32    u8
AMD Phenom II   : x3.6   x2.7
Intel Core 2    : x2.0   x1.9

tcrypt results, i386 (speed ratios: new-u32/old, new-u8/old):

                  u32    u8
Intel Atom N260 : x1.5   x1.4

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

diff --git a/crypto/arc4.c b/crypto/arc4.c
index 07913fc..5a772c3 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/arc4.c
+++ b/crypto/arc4.c
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 #define ARC4_BLOCK_SIZE                1
 
 struct arc4_ctx {
-       u8 S[256];
-       u8 x, y;
+       u32 S[256];
+       u32 x, y;
 };
 
 static int arc4_set_key(struct crypto_tfm *tfm, const u8 *in_key,
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int arc4_set_key(struct crypto_tfm *tfm, const u8 *in_key,
                ctx->S[i] = i;
 
        for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
-               u8 a = ctx->S[i];
+               u32 a = ctx->S[i];
                j = (j + in_key[k] + a) & 0xff;
                ctx->S[i] = ctx->S[j];
                ctx->S[j] = a;
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ static int arc4_set_key(struct crypto_tfm *tfm, const u8 *in_key,
 static void arc4_crypt(struct arc4_ctx *ctx, u8 *out, const u8 *in,
                       unsigned int len)
 {
-       u8 *const S = ctx->S;
-       u8 x, y, a, b;
-       u8 ty, ta, tb;
+       u32 *const S = ctx->S;
+       u32 x, y, a, b;
+       u32 ty, ta, tb;
 
        if (len == 0)
                return;