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SubjectRe: [PATCH] crypto: x86/twofish-3way - Fix %rbp usage

* Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> wrote:

> There may be a small overhead caused by replacing 'xchg REG, REG' with
> the needed sequence 'mov MEM, REG; mov REG, MEM; mov REG, REG' once per
> round. But, counterintuitively, when I tested "ctr-twofish-3way" on a
> Haswell processor, the new version was actually about 2% faster.
> (Perhaps 'xchg' is not as well optimized as plain moves.)

XCHG has implicit LOCK semantics on all x86 CPUs, so that's not a surprising
result I think.

Thanks,

Ingo

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