Kernel 6.10 and LUKS performance

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Hi,

I just gave kernel 6.10.0 a try. I did a cryptsetup benchmark and compared it with kernel 6.6.25 and 6.8.4 on my AMD Ryzen 9 5900X . The results are really good for LUKS users like me:

kernel 6.6 and 6.8 are basically the same:

#     Algorithm |       Key |      Encryption |      Decryption
        aes-xts        512b      3177,1 MiB/s      3152,4 MiB/s

But kernel 6.10.0 does:

#     Algorithm |       Key |      Encryption |      Decryption
        aes-xts        512b      4728,5 MiB/s      4730,8 MiB/s

This is almost 50 % increase in performance for things like LUKS.

I love it!

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