On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 04:20:44PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 1/15/21 4:14 PM, Dey, Megha wrote: > > Also, I do not know of any cores that implement PCLMULQDQ and not AES-NI. > > That's true, bit it's also possible that a hypervisor could enumerate > support for PCLMULQDQ and not AES-NI. In general, we've tried to > implement x86 CPU features independently, even if they never show up in > a real CPU independently.
We only add optimized implementations of crypto algorithms if they are actually useful, though. If they would never be used in practice, that's not useful. - Eric
