New AVX/AVX2 Crypto Code For The Linux Kernel
While we've already seen many AVX/AVX2 Linux kernel patches in recent months out of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center, there's still more ahead. The latest patches were published on Wednesday and provide an AVX and AVX2 version of AESNI-GCM encode/decode. Writing the specific code for the Advanced Vector Extensiuons is worthwhile as the reported performance gains can be nearly a 20% speed-up and the beenefits will be even greater on the upcoming Intel Broadwell processors.
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