From: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 21:01:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: rc4-x86_64.pl: "Westmere" optimization.
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL-fips-2_0-rc1~1100
X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=629fd3aa913f547f6228740d5068193f283abe94;ds=sidebyside

rc4-x86_64.pl: "Westmere" optimization.
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diff --git a/crypto/rc4/asm/rc4-x86_64.pl b/crypto/rc4/asm/rc4-x86_64.pl
index 677be5fe25..23fe4d9996 100755
--- a/crypto/rc4/asm/rc4-x86_64.pl
+++ b/crypto/rc4/asm/rc4-x86_64.pl
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@
 # fit for Core2 and therefore the code was modified to skip cloop8 on
 # this CPU.
 
+# Intel Westmere was observed to perform suboptimally. Adding yet
+# another movzb to cloop1 improved performance by almost 50%! Core2
+# performance is improved too, but nominally...
+
 $flavour = shift;
 $output  = shift;
 if ($flavour =~ /\./) { $output = $flavour; undef $flavour; }
@@ -229,6 +233,7 @@ $code.=<<___;
 .align	16
 .Lcloop1:
 	add	$TX[0]#b,$YY#b
+	movzb	$YY#b,$YY#d
 	movzb	($dat,$YY),$TY#d
 	movb	$TX[0]#b,($dat,$YY)
 	movb	$TY#b,($dat,$XX[0])