On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 20:29:56 GMT, Anthony Scarpino <ascarp...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I would like a review of an update to the GCM code.  A recent report showed 
>> that GCM memory usage for TLS was very large.  This was a result of in-place 
>> buffers, which TLS uses, and how the code handled the combined intrinsic 
>> method during decryption.  A temporary buffer was used because the combined 
>> intrinsic does gctr before ghash which results in a bad tag.  The fix is to 
>> not use the combined intrinsic during in-place decryption and depend on the 
>> individual GHASH and CounterMode intrinsics.  Direct ByteBuffers are not 
>> affected as they are not used by the intrinsics directly.
>> 
>> The reduction in the memory usage boosted performance back to where it was 
>> before despite using slower intrinsics (gctr & ghash individually).  The 
>> extra memory allocation for the temporary buffer out-weighted the faster 
>> intrinsic.
>> 
>> 
>>     JDK 17:   122913.554 ops/sec
>>     JDK 19:    94885.008 ops/sec
>>     Post fix: 122735.804 ops/sec 
>> 
>> There is no regression test because this is a memory change and test 
>> coverage already existing.
>
> Anthony Scarpino has updated the pull request incrementally with three 
> additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - editor screwed up
>  - why won't this merge hell stop 2
>  - why won't this merge hell stop 3

What benchmark was this? How large were the buffers?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11121

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