Prefer Go stdlib aes-gcm on arm64 with aes instructions

We used to prefer openssl in this situation, which
used to make sense, but now Go gained an optimized
assembly implementation for aes-gcm on arm64 with
aes instructions:

  root@q1:~/go/src/github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs# ./gocryptfs -speed
  gocryptfs v1.7.1-46-g73436d9; go-fuse v1.0.1-0.20190319092520-161a16484456; 2020-04-13 go1.14.2 linux/arm64
  AES-GCM-256-OpenSSL      212.30 MB/s    (selected in auto mode)
  AES-GCM-256-Go           452.30 MB/s
  AES-SIV-512-Go           100.25 MB/s
  XChaCha20-Poly1305-Go    137.35 MB/s

https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/452
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Jakob Unterwurzacher 2020-04-13 22:34:07 +02:00
parent 73436d9419
commit 8f5c2a613d
1 changed files with 7 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ import (
// PreferOpenSSL tells us if OpenSSL is faster than Go GCM on this machine.
//
// Go GCM is only faster if the CPU:
// Go GCM is only faster if the CPU either:
//
// 1) Is X86
// 2) Has AES instructions
// 3) Go is v1.6 or higher
// 1) Is X86_64 && has AES instructions && Go is v1.6 or higher
// 2) Is ARM64 && has AES instructions && Go is v1.11 or higher
// (commit https://github.com/golang/go/commit/4f1f503373cda7160392be94e3849b0c9b9ebbda)
//
// See https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/wiki/CPU-Benchmarks
// for benchmarks.
@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ func PreferOpenSSL() bool {
return false
}
// Safe to call on other architectures - will just read false.
if cpu.X86.HasAES {
if cpu.X86.HasAES || cpu.ARM64.HasAES {
// Go stdlib is probably faster
return false
}
// Openssl is probably faster
return true
}