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[v2,0/6] Add support for Texas Instruments MCRC64 engine

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Kamlesh Gurudasani Aug. 10, 2023, 7:28 p.m. UTC
Add support for MCRC64 engine to calculate 64-bit CRC in Full-CPU mode

MCRC64 engine calculates 64-bit cyclic redundancy checks (CRC)
according to the ISO 3309 standard.

The ISO 3309 64-bit CRC model parameters are as follows:
    Generator Polynomial: x^64 + x^4 + x^3 + x + 1
    Polynomial Value: 0x000000000000001B
    Initial value: 0x0000000000000000
    Reflected Input: False
    Reflected Output: False
    Xor Final: 0x0000000000000000

Tested with
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS is not set
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS=y

and tcrypt,
sudo modprobe tcrypt mode=329 sec=1

User space application implemented using algif_hash,
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/73abfcc1a33318bb3b199d36b6209e59

Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Add generic implementation of crc64-iso
- Fixes according to review comments
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719-mcrc-upstream-v1-0-dc8798a24c47@ti.com

---
Kamlesh Gurudasani (6):
      lib: add ISO 3309 model crc64
      crypto: crc64 - add crc64-iso framework
      dt-bindings: crypto: Add Texas Instruments MCRC64
      crypto: ti - add driver for MCRC64 engine
      arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62: Add dt node, cbass_main ranges for MCRC64
      arm64: defconfig: enable TI MCRC64 module

 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml |  47 ++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                             |   7 ++
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62-main.dtsi                |   7 ++
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62.dtsi                     |   1 +
 arch/arm64/configs/defconfig                            |   2 +
 crypto/Kconfig                                          |  11 ++
 crypto/Makefile                                         |   1 +
 crypto/crc64_iso_generic.c                              | 119 ++++++++++++++++++
 crypto/tcrypt.c                                         |   5 +
 crypto/testmgr.c                                        |   7 ++
 crypto/testmgr.h                                        | 404 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/crypto/Kconfig                                  |   1 +
 drivers/crypto/Makefile                                 |   1 +
 drivers/crypto/ti/Kconfig                               |  10 ++
 drivers/crypto/ti/Makefile                              |   2 +
 drivers/crypto/ti/mcrc64.c                              | 442 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/crc64.h                                   |   5 +
 lib/crc64-iso.c                                         | 126 +++++++++++++++++++
 lib/crc64.c                                             |  27 +++++
 lib/gen_crc64table.c                                    |   6 +
 20 files changed, 1231 insertions(+)
---
base-commit: 21ef7b1e17d039053edaeaf41142423810572741
change-id: 20230719-mcrc-upstream-7ae9a75cab37

Best regards,

Comments

Nishanth Menon Aug. 10, 2023, 8:25 p.m. UTC | #1
On 00:58-20230811, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
> K3 devices include MCRC64 engine for crc64 calculation.
> Enable module to be built for K3 devices.
> 
> Also enable algif_hash module, which is needed to access MCRC64 module
> from userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>
> ---

There are few things to improve in this series, but we can discuss this
as part of defconfig merge

See thread: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/ae2ad056-96de-41b7-8df4-1d9c0f5c469b@app.fastmail.com/
for additional info.

K3 devices is too broad, you want to specify specific boards that will
benefit out of this.

I suggest to keep this as "DONOTMERGE" to indicate this should'nt go via
subsystem maintainer tree (most maintainers are  aware of it, but
explicitly calling it out helps keep things sane)


>  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> index bf13d5c46578..4d555a125315 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> @@ -1535,6 +1535,7 @@ CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEST=m
>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV=y
>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC=m
>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG=y
> +CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH=m
>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_RNG=m
>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON=m
>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_GHASH_ARM64_CE=y
> @@ -1558,6 +1559,7 @@ CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HISI_ZIP=m
>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HISI_HPRE=m
>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HISI_TRNG=m
>  CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_SA2UL=m
> +CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_TI_MCRC64=m
>  CONFIG_DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL=y
>  CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES=32
>  CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>
Conor Dooley Aug. 11, 2023, 3:34 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 12:58:50AM +0530, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
> Add binding for Texas Instruments MCRC64
> 
> MCRC64 engine calculates 64-bit cyclic redundancy checks (CRC)
> according to the ISO 3309 standard.
> 
> The ISO 3309 64-bit CRC model parameters are as follows:
>     Generator Polynomial: x^64 + x^4 + x^3 + x + 1
>     Polynomial Value: 0x000000000000001B
>     Initial value: 0x0000000000000000
>     Reflected Input: False
>     Reflected Output: False
>     Xor Final: 0x0000000000000000
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                             |  5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 52 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..38bc7efebd68
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Texas Instruments MCRC64
> +
> +description: The MCRC64 engine calculates 64-bit cyclic redundancy checks

A newline after "description" please.

> +  (CRC) according to the ISO 3309 standard.
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>
> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    const: ti,am62-mcrc64

Is the am62 an SoC or a family of SoCs? I googled a wee bit for am62 &
there seems to be an am625 and an am623?

Otherwise, this looks good to me.

> +
> +  reg:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +  clocks:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +  power-domains:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +required:
> +  - compatible
> +  - reg
> +  - clocks
> +  - power-domains
> +
> +additionalProperties: false
> +
> +examples:
> +  - |
> +    #include <dt-bindings/soc/ti,sci_pm_domain.h>
> +
> +    crc@30300000 {
> +      compatible = "ti,am62-mcrc64";
> +      reg = <0x30300000 0x1000>;
> +      clocks = <&k3_clks 116 0>;
> +      power-domains = <&k3_pds 116 TI_SCI_PD_EXCLUSIVE>;
> +    };
> +
> +...
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 02a3192195af..66b51f43d196 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -21481,6 +21481,11 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/ti,lmp92064.yaml
>  F:	drivers/iio/adc/ti-lmp92064.c
>  
> +TI MEMORY CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK (MCRC64) DRIVER
> +M:	Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml
> +
>  TI PCM3060 ASoC CODEC DRIVER
>  M:	Kirill Marinushkin <kmarinushkin@birdec.com>
>  L:	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>
Conor Dooley Aug. 11, 2023, 3:36 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 04:34:33PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 12:58:50AM +0530, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
> > Add binding for Texas Instruments MCRC64
> > 
> > MCRC64 engine calculates 64-bit cyclic redundancy checks (CRC)
> > according to the ISO 3309 standard.
> > 
> > The ISO 3309 64-bit CRC model parameters are as follows:
> >     Generator Polynomial: x^64 + x^4 + x^3 + x + 1
> >     Polynomial Value: 0x000000000000001B
> >     Initial value: 0x0000000000000000
> >     Reflected Input: False
> >     Reflected Output: False
> >     Xor Final: 0x0000000000000000
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  MAINTAINERS                                             |  5 +++++
> >  2 files changed, 52 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..38bc7efebd68
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > +%YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml#
> > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > +
> > +title: Texas Instruments MCRC64
> > +
> > +description: The MCRC64 engine calculates 64-bit cyclic redundancy checks
> 
> A newline after "description" please.
> 
> > +  (CRC) according to the ISO 3309 standard.
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > +  - Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>
> > +
> > +properties:
> > +  compatible:
> > +    const: ti,am62-mcrc64
> 
> Is the am62 an SoC or a family of SoCs? I googled a wee bit for am62 &
> there seems to be an am625 and an am623?

Or is it an am62p5, in which case the compatible should contain
ti,am62p5 I suppose. Sorry for my confusion here, its not really clear
me too since I've been seeing many different-but-similar product names
the last few days.

Thanks,
Conor.

> 
> Otherwise, this looks good to me.
> 
> > +
> > +  reg:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +
> > +  clocks:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +
> > +  power-domains:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +
> > +required:
> > +  - compatible
> > +  - reg
> > +  - clocks
> > +  - power-domains
> > +
> > +additionalProperties: false
> > +
> > +examples:
> > +  - |
> > +    #include <dt-bindings/soc/ti,sci_pm_domain.h>
> > +
> > +    crc@30300000 {
> > +      compatible = "ti,am62-mcrc64";
> > +      reg = <0x30300000 0x1000>;
> > +      clocks = <&k3_clks 116 0>;
> > +      power-domains = <&k3_pds 116 TI_SCI_PD_EXCLUSIVE>;
> > +    };
> > +
> > +...
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 02a3192195af..66b51f43d196 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -21481,6 +21481,11 @@ S:	Maintained
> >  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/ti,lmp92064.yaml
> >  F:	drivers/iio/adc/ti-lmp92064.c
> >  
> > +TI MEMORY CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK (MCRC64) DRIVER
> > +M:	Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>
> > +S:	Maintained
> > +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/ti,mcrc64.yaml
> > +
> >  TI PCM3060 ASoC CODEC DRIVER
> >  M:	Kirill Marinushkin <kmarinushkin@birdec.com>
> >  L:	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.34.1
> >
Eric Biggers Aug. 12, 2023, 3:01 a.m. UTC | #4
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 12:58:47AM +0530, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
> Add support for MCRC64 engine to calculate 64-bit CRC in Full-CPU mode
> 
> MCRC64 engine calculates 64-bit cyclic redundancy checks (CRC)
> according to the ISO 3309 standard.
> 
> The ISO 3309 64-bit CRC model parameters are as follows:
>     Generator Polynomial: x^64 + x^4 + x^3 + x + 1
>     Polynomial Value: 0x000000000000001B
>     Initial value: 0x0000000000000000
>     Reflected Input: False
>     Reflected Output: False
>     Xor Final: 0x0000000000000000
> 
> Tested with
> CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS is not set
> CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS=y
> 
> and tcrypt,
> sudo modprobe tcrypt mode=329 sec=1
> 
> User space application implemented using algif_hash,
> https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/73abfcc1a33318bb3b199d36b6209e59
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>

I do not see any in-kernel user of this CRC variant being introduced, which
leaves algif_hash as the only use case.

Can you elaborate on the benefit this brings to your application?  Yes, it
allows you to use your hardware CRC engine.  But, that comes with all the
overhead from the syscalls, algif_hash, and the driver.  How does performance
compare to a properly optimized software CRC implementation on your platform,
i.e. an implementation using carryless multiplication instructions (e.g. ARMv8
CE) if available on your platform, otherwise an implementation using the
slice-by-8 or slice-by-16 method?

- Eric
Kamlesh Gurudasani Aug. 18, 2023, 9:06 a.m. UTC | #5
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 12:58:47AM +0530, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
>> Add support for MCRC64 engine to calculate 64-bit CRC in Full-CPU mode
>> 
>> MCRC64 engine calculates 64-bit cyclic redundancy checks (CRC)
>> according to the ISO 3309 standard.
>> 
>> The ISO 3309 64-bit CRC model parameters are as follows:
>>     Generator Polynomial: x^64 + x^4 + x^3 + x + 1
>>     Polynomial Value: 0x000000000000001B
>>     Initial value: 0x0000000000000000
>>     Reflected Input: False
>>     Reflected Output: False
>>     Xor Final: 0x0000000000000000
>> 
>> Tested with
>> CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS is not set
>> CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS=y
>> 
>> and tcrypt,
>> sudo modprobe tcrypt mode=329 sec=1
>> 
>> User space application implemented using algif_hash,
>> https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/73abfcc1a33318bb3b199d36b6209e59
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com>
>
> I do not see any in-kernel user of this CRC variant being introduced, which
> leaves algif_hash as the only use case.
>
> Can you elaborate on the benefit this brings to your application?  Yes, it
> allows you to use your hardware CRC engine.  But, that comes with all the
> overhead from the syscalls, algif_hash, and the driver.  How does performance
> compare to a properly optimized software CRC implementation on your platform,
> i.e. an implementation using carryless multiplication instructions (e.g. ARMv8
> CE) if available on your platform, otherwise an implementation using the
> slice-by-8 or slice-by-16 method?
>
> - Eric
Hi Eric,

We are more interested in offload than performance, with splice system
call and DMA mode in driver(will be implemented after this series gets
merged), good amount of cpu cycles will be saved.

There is one more mode(auto mode) in mcrc64 which helps to verify crc64
values against pre calculated crc64, saving the efforts of comparing in
userspace.

Current generic implementation of crc64-iso(part of this series)
gives 173 Mb/s of speed as opposed to mcrc64 which gives speed of 812
Mb/s when tested with tcrypt.

Regard,
Kamlesh
Eric Biggers Aug. 22, 2023, 5:17 a.m. UTC | #6
On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:36:34PM +0530, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> We are more interested in offload than performance, with splice system
> call and DMA mode in driver(will be implemented after this series gets
> merged), good amount of cpu cycles will be saved.

So it's for power usage, then?  Or freeing up CPU for other tasks?

> There is one more mode(auto mode) in mcrc64 which helps to verify crc64
> values against pre calculated crc64, saving the efforts of comparing in
> userspace.

Is there any path forward to actually support this?

> 
> Current generic implementation of crc64-iso(part of this series)
> gives 173 Mb/s of speed as opposed to mcrc64 which gives speed of 812
> Mb/s when tested with tcrypt.

This doesn't answer my question, which to reiterate was:

    How does performance compare to a properly optimized software CRC
    implementation on your platform, i.e. an implementation using carryless
    multiplication instructions (e.g. ARMv8 CE) if available on your platform,
    otherwise an implementation using the slice-by-8 or slice-by-16 method?

The implementation you tested was slice-by-1.  Compared to that, it's common for
slice-by-8 to speed up CRCs by about 4 times and for folding with carryless
multiplication to speed up CRCs by 10-30 times, sometimes limited only by memory
bandwidth.  I don't know what specific results you would get on your specific
CPU and for this specific CRC, and you could certainly see something different
if you e.g. have some low-end embedded CPU.  But those are the typical results
I've seen for other CRCs on different CPUs.  So, a software implementation may
be more attractive than you realize.  It could very well be the case that a
PMULL based CRC implementation actually ends up with less CPU load than your
"hardware offload", when taking into syscall, algif_hash, and driver overhead...

- Eric
Kamlesh Gurudasani Aug. 30, 2023, 11:51 a.m. UTC | #7
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:36:34PM +0530, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> We are more interested in offload than performance, with splice system
>> call and DMA mode in driver(will be implemented after this series gets
>> merged), good amount of cpu cycles will be saved.
>
> So it's for power usage, then?  Or freeing up CPU for other tasks?
It is for freeing CPU for other tasks

>
>> There is one more mode(auto mode) in mcrc64 which helps to verify crc64
>> values against pre calculated crc64, saving the efforts of comparing in
>> userspace.
>
> Is there any path forward to actually support this?
>
>> 
>> Current generic implementation of crc64-iso(part of this series)
>> gives 173 Mb/s of speed as opposed to mcrc64 which gives speed of 812
>> Mb/s when tested with tcrypt.
>
> This doesn't answer my question, which to reiterate was:
>
>     How does performance compare to a properly optimized software CRC
>     implementation on your platform, i.e. an implementation using carryless
>     multiplication instructions (e.g. ARMv8 CE) if available on your platform,
>     otherwise an implementation using the slice-by-8 or slice-by-16 method?
>
> The implementation you tested was slice-by-1.  Compared to that, it's common for
> slice-by-8 to speed up CRCs by about 4 times and for folding with carryless
> multiplication to speed up CRCs by 10-30 times, sometimes limited only by memory
> bandwidth.  I don't know what specific results you would get on your specific
> CPU and for this specific CRC, and you could certainly see something different
> if you e.g. have some low-end embedded CPU.  But those are the typical results
> I've seen for other CRCs on different CPUs.  So, a software implementation may
> be more attractive than you realize.  It could very well be the case that a
> PMULL based CRC implementation actually ends up with less CPU load than your
> "hardware offload", when taking into syscall, algif_hash, and driver overhead...
>
> - Eric
Hi Eric, thanks for your detailed and valuable inputs.

As per your suggestion, we did some profiling. 

Use case is to calculate crc32/crc64 for file input from user space.

Instead of directly implementing PMULL based CRC64, we made first comparison between 
Case 1.
CRC32 (splice() + kernel space SW driver) 
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/5be75dbde292e122135ddf795fad9f21

Case 2.
CRC32(mmap() + userspace armv8 crc32 instruction implementation)
(tried read() as well to get contents of file, but that lost to mmap() so not mentioning number here)
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/002df094dd522422c6cb62069e15c40d

Case 3.
CRC64 (splice() + MCRC64 HW)
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/98b1fc36c9a7c3defcc2dced4136b8a0


Overall, overhead of userspace + af_alg + driver in (Case 1) and
( Case 3) is ~0.025s, which is constant for any file size.
This is calculated using real time to calculate crc  -
driver time (time spend inside init() + update() +final()) = overhead ~0.025s    



+-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
|                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
| File size         | 120mb(ideal size for us)    | 20mb                  | 15mb                   | 5mb                    |
+===================+=============================+=======================+========================+========================+
|                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
| CRC32 (Case 1)    | Driver time 0.155s          | Driver time 0.0325s   | Driver time 0.019s     | Driver time 0.0062s    |
|                   |    real time 0.18s          |    real time 0.06s    |    real time 0.04s     |    real time 0.03s     |
|                   |    overhead 0.025s          |    overhead 0.025s    |    overhead 0.021s     |    overhead ~0.023s    |
+-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
|                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
| CRC32 (Case 2)    | Real time 0.30s             | Real time 0.05s       | Real time 0.04s        | Real time 0.02s        |
+-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
|                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
| CRC64 (Case 3)    | Driver time   0.385s        | Driver time 0.0665s   | Driver time 0.0515s    | Driver time 0.019s     |
|                   |    real time 0.41s          |    real time 0.09s    |    real time 0.08s     |    real time 0.04s     |
|                   |    overhead 0.025s          |    overhead 0.025s    |    overhead ~0.025s    |    overhead ~0.021s    |
+-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+

Here, if we consider similar numbers for crc64 PMULL implementation as
crc32 (case 2) , we save good number of cpu cycles using mcrc64
in case of files bigger than 5-10mb as most of the time is being spent in HW offload.

Regards,
Kamlesh
Kamlesh Gurudasani Aug. 30, 2023, 1:48 p.m. UTC | #8
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:36:34PM +0530, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> We are more interested in offload than performance, with splice system
>> call and DMA mode in driver(will be implemented after this series gets
>> merged), good amount of cpu cycles will be saved.
>
> So it's for power usage, then?  Or freeing up CPU for other tasks?
>

It's for freeing up CPU for other tasks

>> There is one more mode(auto mode) in mcrc64 which helps to verify crc64
>> values against pre calculated crc64, saving the efforts of comparing in
>> userspace.
>
> Is there any path forward to actually support this?
>
>> 
>> Current generic implementation of crc64-iso(part of this series)
>> gives 173 Mb/s of speed as opposed to mcrc64 which gives speed of 812
>> Mb/s when tested with tcrypt.
>
> This doesn't answer my question, which to reiterate was:
>
>     How does performance compare to a properly optimized software CRC
>     implementation on your platform, i.e. an implementation using carryless
>     multiplication instructions (e.g. ARMv8 CE) if available on your platform,
>     otherwise an implementation using the slice-by-8 or slice-by-16 method?
>
> The implementation you tested was slice-by-1.  Compared to that, it's common for
> slice-by-8 to speed up CRCs by about 4 times and for folding with carryless
> multiplication to speed up CRCs by 10-30 times, sometimes limited only by memory
> bandwidth.  I don't know what specific results you would get on your specific
> CPU and for this specific CRC, and you could certainly see something different
> if you e.g. have some low-end embedded CPU.  But those are the typical results
> I've seen for other CRCs on different CPUs.  So, a software implementation may
> be more attractive than you realize.  It could very well be the case that a
> PMULL based CRC implementation actually ends up with less CPU load than your
> "hardware offload", when taking into syscall, algif_hash, and driver overhead...
>
> - Eric

Hi Eric, thanks for your detailed and valuable inputs.

As per your suggestion, we did some profiling. 

Use case is to calculate crc32/crc64 for file input from user space.

Instead of directly implementing PMULL based CRC64, we made first comparison between 
Case 1.
CRC32 (splice() + kernel space SW driver) 
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/5be75dbde292e122135ddf795fad9f21

Case 2.
CRC32(mmap() + userspace armv8 crc32 instruction implementation)
(tried read() as well to get contents of file, but that lost to mmap() so not mentioning number here)
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/002df094dd522422c6cb62069e15c40d

Case 3.
CRC64 (splice() + MCRC64 HW)
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/98b1fc36c9a7c3defcc2dced4136b8a0


Overall, overhead of userspace + af_alg + driver in (Case 1) and ( Case 3) is ~0.025s, which is constant for any file size.
This is calculated using real time to calculate crc  - driver time (time spend inside init() + update() +final()) = overhead ~0.025s    

Here, if we consider similar numbers for crc64 PMULL implementation as crc32 (case 2) , we save good number of cpu cycles using mcrc64
in case of files bigger than 5-10mb as most of the time is being spent in HW offload.

+-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
|                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
| File size         | 120mb(ideal size for us)    | 20mb                  | 15mb                   | 5mb                    |
+===================+=============================+=======================+========================+========================+
|                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
| CRC32 (Case 1)    | Driver time 0.155s          | Driver time 0.0325s   | Driver time 0.019s     | Driver time 0.0062s    |
|                   |    real time 0.18s          |    real time 0.06s    |    real time 0.04s     |    real time 0.03s     |
|                   |    overhead 0.025s          |    overhead 0.025s    |    overhead 0.021s     |    overhead ~0.023s    |
+-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
|                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
| CRC32 (Case 2)    | Real time 0.30s             | Real time 0.05s       | Real time 0.04s        | Real time 0.02s        |
+-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
|                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
| CRC64 (Case 3)    | Driver time   0.385s        | Driver time 0.0665s   | Driver time 0.0515s    | Driver time 0.019s     |
|                   |    real time 0.41s          |    real time 0.09s    |    real time 0.08s     |    real time 0.04s     |
|                   |    overhead 0.025s          |    overhead 0.025s    |    overhead ~0.025s    |    overhead ~0.021s    |
+-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
Kamlesh Gurudasani Aug. 30, 2023, 2:34 p.m. UTC | #9
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:36:34PM +0530, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> We are more interested in offload than performance, with splice system
>> call and DMA mode in driver(will be implemented after this series gets
>> merged), good amount of cpu cycles will be saved.
>
> So it's for power usage, then?  Or freeing up CPU for other tasks?
>
It's for freeing CPU fpr other tasks
>> There is one more mode(auto mode) in mcrc64 which helps to verify crc64
>> values against pre calculated crc64, saving the efforts of comparing in
>> userspace.
>
> Is there any path forward to actually support this?
>
>> 
>> Current generic implementation of crc64-iso(part of this series)
>> gives 173 Mb/s of speed as opposed to mcrc64 which gives speed of 812
>> Mb/s when tested with tcrypt.
>
> This doesn't answer my question, which to reiterate was:
>
>     How does performance compare to a properly optimized software CRC
>     implementation on your platform, i.e. an implementation using carryless
>     multiplication instructions (e.g. ARMv8 CE) if available on your platform,
>     otherwise an implementation using the slice-by-8 or slice-by-16 method?
>
> The implementation you tested was slice-by-1.  Compared to that, it's common for
> slice-by-8 to speed up CRCs by about 4 times and for folding with carryless
> multiplication to speed up CRCs by 10-30 times, sometimes limited only by memory
> bandwidth.  I don't know what specific results you would get on your specific
> CPU and for this specific CRC, and you could certainly see something different
> if you e.g. have some low-end embedded CPU.  But those are the typical results
> I've seen for other CRCs on different CPUs.  So, a software implementation may
> be more attractive than you realize.  It could very well be the case that a
> PMULL based CRC implementation actually ends up with less CPU load than your
> "hardware offload", when taking into syscall, algif_hash, and driver overhead...
>
> - Eric

Hi Eric, thanks for your detailed and valuable inputs.

As per your suggestion, we did some profiling. 

Use case is to calculate crc32/crc64 for file input from user space.

Instead of directly implementing PMULL based CRC64, we made first comparison between 
Case 1.
CRC32 (splice() + kernel space SW driver) 
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/5be75dbde292e122135ddf795fad9f21

Case 2.
CRC32(mmap() + userspace armv8 crc32 instruction implementation)
(tried read() as well to get contents of file, but that lost to mmap() so not mentioning number here)
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/002df094dd522422c6cb62069e15c40d

Case 3.
CRC64 (splice() + MCRC64 HW)
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/98b1fc36c9a7c3defcc2dced4136b8a0


Overall, overhead of userspace + af_alg + driver in (Case 1) and ( Case 3) is ~0.025s, which is constant for any file size.
This is calculated using real time to calculate crc  - driver time (time spend inside init() + update() +final()) = overhead ~0.025s    

Here, if we consider similar numbers for crc64 PMULL implementation as crc32 (case 2) , we save good number of cpu cycles using mcrc64
in case of files bigger than 5-10mb as most of the time is being spent
in HW offload.

╔═══════════════════╦═════════════════════════════╦═══════════════════════╦════════════════════════╦════════════════════════╗
║                   ║                             ║                       ║                        ║                        ║
║ File size         ║ 120mb(ideal size for us)    ║ 20mb                  ║ 15mb                   ║ 5mb                    ║
╠═══════════════════╬═════════════════════════════╬═══════════════════════╬════════════════════════╬════════════════════════╣
║                   ║                             ║                       ║                        ║                        ║
║ CRC32 (Case 1)    ║ Driver time 0.155s          ║ Driver time 0.0325s   ║ Driver time 0.019s     ║ Driver time 0.0062s    ║
║                   ║    real time 0.18s          ║    real time 0.06s    ║    real time 0.04s     ║    real time 0.03s     ║
║                   ║    overhead 0.025s          ║    overhead 0.025s    ║    overhead 0.021s     ║    overhead ~0.023s    ║
╠═══════════════════╬═════════════════════════════╬═══════════════════════╬════════════════════════╬════════════════════════╣
║                   ║                             ║                       ║                        ║                        ║
║ CRC32 (Case 2)    ║ Real time 0.30s             ║ Real time 0.05s       ║ Real time 0.04s        ║ Real time 0.02s        ║
╠═══════════════════╬═════════════════════════════╬═══════════════════════╬════════════════════════╬════════════════════════╣
║                   ║                             ║                       ║                        ║                        ║
║ CRC64 (Case 3)    ║ Driver time   0.385s        ║ Driver time 0.0665s   ║ Driver time 0.0515s    ║ Driver time 0.019s     ║
║                   ║    real time 0.41s          ║    real time 0.09s    ║    real time 0.08s     ║    real time 0.04s     ║
║                   ║    overhead 0.025s          ║    overhead 0.025s    ║    overhead ~0.025s    ║    overhead ~0.021s    ║
╚═══════════════════╩═════════════════════════════╩═══════════════════════╩════════════════════════╩════════════════════════╝
Kamlesh Gurudasani Aug. 30, 2023, 2:46 p.m. UTC | #10
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> writes:

Somehow couple of my earlier mails got blocked mailing list because of
table formatting, I guess. Resending. Accept my apologies for spamming. 

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:36:34PM +0530, Kamlesh Gurudasani wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> We are more interested in offload than performance, with splice system
>> call and DMA mode in driver(will be implemented after this series gets
>> merged), good amount of cpu cycles will be saved.
>
> So it's for power usage, then?  Or freeing up CPU for other tasks?
It's for freeing the CPU for other tasks

>
>> There is one more mode(auto mode) in mcrc64 which helps to verify crc64
>> values against pre calculated crc64, saving the efforts of comparing in
>> userspace.
>
> Is there any path forward to actually support this?
>
>> 
>> Current generic implementation of crc64-iso(part of this series)
>> gives 173 Mb/s of speed as opposed to mcrc64 which gives speed of 812
>> Mb/s when tested with tcrypt.
>
> This doesn't answer my question, which to reiterate was:
>
>     How does performance compare to a properly optimized software CRC
>     implementation on your platform, i.e. an implementation using carryless
>     multiplication instructions (e.g. ARMv8 CE) if available on your platform,
>     otherwise an implementation using the slice-by-8 or slice-by-16 method?
>
> The implementation you tested was slice-by-1.  Compared to that, it's common for
> slice-by-8 to speed up CRCs by about 4 times and for folding with carryless
> multiplication to speed up CRCs by 10-30 times, sometimes limited only by memory
> bandwidth.  I don't know what specific results you would get on your specific
> CPU and for this specific CRC, and you could certainly see something different
> if you e.g. have some low-end embedded CPU.  But those are the typical results
> I've seen for other CRCs on different CPUs.  So, a software implementation may
> be more attractive than you realize.  It could very well be the case that a
> PMULL based CRC implementation actually ends up with less CPU load than your
> "hardware offload", when taking into syscall, algif_hash, and driver overhead...
>
> - Eric

Hi Eric, thanks for your detailed and valuable inputs.

As per your suggestion, we did some profiling. 

Use case is to calculate crc32/crc64 for file input from user space.

Instead of directly implementing PMULL based CRC64, we made first comparison between Case 1.
CRC32 (splice() + kernel space SW driver)
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/5be75dbde292e122135ddf795fad9f21

Case 2.
CRC32(mmap() + userspace armv8 crc32 instruction implementation)
(tried read() as well to get contents of file,
but that lost to mmap() so not mentioning number here)
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/002df094dd522422c6cb62069e15c40d

Case 3.
CRC64 (splice() + MCRC64 HW)
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/98b1fc36c9a7c3defcc2dced4136b8a0


Overall, overhead of userspace + af_alg + driver in (Case 1) and ( Case
3) is ~0.025s, which is constant for any file size.
This is calculated using
real time to calculate crc  - driver time (time spend inside init() + update() +final()) = overhead ~0.025s    

Here, if we consider similar numbers for crc64 PMULL implementation as
crc32 (case 2) ,
we save good number of cpu cycles using mcrc64 in case of files bigger
than 5-10mb as most of the time is being spent in HW offload.



Comparison table:
https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/8117b6f7120960a71541ab67c671602a
Kamlesh Gurudasani Sept. 20, 2023, 6:53 a.m. UTC | #11
Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@ti.com> writes:
...

> Hi Eric, thanks for your detailed and valuable inputs.
>
> As per your suggestion, we did some profiling. 
>
> Use case is to calculate crc32/crc64 for file input from user space.
>
> Instead of directly implementing PMULL based CRC64, we made first comparison between 
> Case 1.
> CRC32 (splice() + kernel space SW driver) 
> https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/5be75dbde292e122135ddf795fad9f21
>
> Case 2.
> CRC32(mmap() + userspace armv8 crc32 instruction implementation)
> (tried read() as well to get contents of file, but that lost to mmap() so not mentioning number here)
> https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/002df094dd522422c6cb62069e15c40d
>
> Case 3.
> CRC64 (splice() + MCRC64 HW)
> https://gist.github.com/ti-kamlesh/98b1fc36c9a7c3defcc2dced4136b8a0
>
>
> Overall, overhead of userspace + af_alg + driver in (Case 1) and
> ( Case 3) is ~0.025s, which is constant for any file size.
> This is calculated using real time to calculate crc  -
> driver time (time spend inside init() + update() +final()) = overhead ~0.025s    
>
>
>
> +-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
> |                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
> | File size         | 120mb(ideal size for us)    | 20mb                  | 15mb                   | 5mb                    |
> +===================+=============================+=======================+========================+========================+
> |                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
> | CRC32 (Case 1)    | Driver time 0.155s          | Driver time 0.0325s   | Driver time 0.019s     | Driver time 0.0062s    |
> |                   |    real time 0.18s          |    real time 0.06s    |    real time 0.04s     |    real time 0.03s     |
> |                   |    overhead 0.025s          |    overhead 0.025s    |    overhead 0.021s     |    overhead ~0.023s    |
> +-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
> |                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
> | CRC32 (Case 2)    | Real time 0.30s             | Real time 0.05s       | Real time 0.04s        | Real time 0.02s        |
> +-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
> |                   |                             |                       |                        |                        |
> | CRC64 (Case 3)    | Driver time   0.385s        | Driver time 0.0665s   | Driver time 0.0515s    | Driver time 0.019s     |
> |                   |    real time 0.41s          |    real time 0.09s    |    real time 0.08s     |    real time 0.04s     |
> |                   |    overhead 0.025s          |    overhead 0.025s    |    overhead ~0.025s    |    overhead ~0.021s    |
> +-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
>
> Here, if we consider similar numbers for crc64 PMULL implementation as
> crc32 (case 2) , we save good number of cpu cycles using mcrc64
> in case of files bigger than 5-10mb as most of the time is being spent in HW offload.
>
> Regards,
> Kamlesh

Hi Eric,

Please let me know if above numbers make sense to you and I should send
next revision.

Regards,
Kamlesh