Re: [PULL 0/4] Crypto luks patches

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 15:58, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The following changes since commit 187f35512106501fe9a11057f4d8705431e0026d:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 
> 'remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-testing-next-251019-3' into staging (2019-10-26 
> 10:13:48 +0100)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   https://github.com/berrange/qemu tags/crypto-luks-pull-request
>
> for you to fetch changes up to dc2207af2de162005f7e9e534850d07232290cee:
>
>   crypto: add support for nettle's native XTS impl (2019-10-28 16:45:07 +0100)
>
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> crypto: improve performance of ciphers in XTS mode
>
> Currently QEMU uses its own XTS cipher mode, however, this has
> relatively poor performance.
>
> Gcrypt now includes its own XTS cipher which is at least x2 faster than
> what we get with QEMU's on Fedora/RHEL hosts. With gcrypt git master, a
> further x5-6 speed up is seen.
>
> This is essential for QEMU's LUKS performance to be viable.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------

Applied, thanks.

Please update the changelog at https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/4.2
for any user-visible changes.

-- PMM