"Optimize" is in quotes because it's rather a "salvage operation"
for now. Idea is to identify processor capability flags that
drive Knights Landing to suboptimial code paths and mask them.
Two flags were identified, XSAVE and ADCX/ADOX. Former affects
choice of AES-NI code path specific for Silvermont (Knights Landing
is of Silvermont "ancestry"). And 64-bit ADCX/ADOX instructions are
effectively mishandled at decode time. In both cases we are looking
at ~2x improvement.
AVX-512 results cover even Skylake-X :-)
Hardware used for benchmarking courtesy of Atos, experiments run by
Romain Dolbeau <romain.dolbeau@atos.net>. Kudos!
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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