16 Mar
2021
16 Mar
'21
6:37 a.m.
Please consider backporting commit
86ad60a65f29dd862a11c22bb4b5be28d6c5cef1 crypto: x86/aes-ni-xts - use direct calls to and 4-way stride
to stable. It addresses a rather substantial retpoline-related performance regression in the AES-NI XTS code, which is a widely used disk encryption algorithm on x86.
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