RFR: 8073108: GHASH Intrinsics

[Anthony Scarpino]

On 02/17/2015 02:59 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 02/16/2015 10:11 PM, Anthony Scarpino wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm requesting a code review to intrinsify the GHASH operations for both
>> x86 and SPARC platforms.  This greatly increases performance over
>> software for AES/GCM crypto operations, details are in the bug.
>>
>> The review is for two repos, hotspot and jdk:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ascarpino/8073108/hotspot/webrev/
>
> Sorry for double-posting.
>
> I looked at generate_ghash_processBlocks() and wonder if the loop needs
> to be split to introduce occasional safepoints.  The TLS record size
> should limit the number bytes per invocation to 16000, so perhaps this
> isn't issue for the current application.

I would think TLS limits should be handled in a JSSE or other TLS area. 
  I think GHASH should be the pure implementation.

Tony