Re: [PATCH v4 10/24] crypto: x86/poly - limit FPU preemption

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 09:59:17AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> On arm64, this is implemented in an assembler macro 'cond_yield' so we
> don't need to preserve/restore the SIMD state state at all if the
> yield is not going to result in a call to schedule(). For example, the
> SHA3 code keeps 400 bytes of state in registers, which we don't want
> to save and reload unless needed. (5f6cb2e617681 'crypto:
> arm64/sha512-ce - simplify NEON yield')

Yes this would be optimally done from the assembly code which
would make a difference if they benefited from larger block sizes.

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