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[Frank Heimes <1806483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: ubuntu-z-systems
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Ubuntu 18.04.1 - OpenSSL RSA connection rate performance degradation
  using ibmca engine (openssl-ibmca)

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Fix Released
Status in openssl-ibmca package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in openssl-ibmca source package in Xenial:
  Invalid
Status in openssl-ibmca source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in openssl-ibmca source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released
Status in openssl-ibmca source package in Disco:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * hw accelerated crypto suffers from poor performance under certain
  configurations.

  [Test Case]

  ---Steps to Reproduce---
   Server; openssl s_server -cert benchcert.pem -quiet -WWW -engine ibmca -accept 8050
  Client: openssl s_time -key benchcert.pem -www /2k.html -time 90 -cipher AES256-SHA -new -bugs -connect 10.14.1.254:8050 -elapsed

  By scaling the number of processes, the issue becomes more and more
  visible.

  requires installing and configuring openssl-ibmca, on systems with hw
  crypto enabled on the LPAR in the HMC.

  [Regression Potential]

   * There will be a change in crypto performance, when openssl-ibmca is
  installed and configured to be used; hopefully for the better.

  [Other Info]
   
   * Original bug report:

  ---Problem Description---
  Recent performance evaluation has shown significant degradation in the TLS connections per second rate using the OpenSSL s_time benchmark with Ubuntu 18.04.1.
  While doing RSA sign/verify operations, the engine would preffer doing RSA-ME instead of RSA-CRT which is significantly better in terms of performance.

  Baseline for this comparison are measurements executed with another distro.
  Both measurements have been made on LPAR native, using the CEX6A adapter.

  Crypto stack on the host:
  OpenSSL ver: 1.1.0g
  IBMCA ver: 1.4.1.-0
  Libica ver: 3.2.1

  Problem present under following condititions:
  1. IBMCA ver >= 2.0.0
  2. OpenSSL version >= 1.1.0 && IBMCA ver >= 1.3.1.

  ---uname output---
  Linux m42lp01 4.15.0-29-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 17 15:42:24 UTC 2018 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux

  Machine Type = Type/Model:3906-M04 LPAR

  ---Steps to Reproduce---
   Server; openssl s_server -cert benchcert.pem -quiet -WWW -engine ibmca -accept 8050
  Client: openssl s_time -key benchcert.pem -www /2k.html -time 90 -cipher AES256-SHA -new -bugs -connect 10.14.1.254:8050 -elapsed

  By scaling the number of processes, the issue becomes more and more
  visible.

  Userspace tool common name: openssl-ibmca

  The userspace tool has the following bit modes: 64

  Userspace package: openssl-ibmca-1.4.1-0ubuntu1.s390x

  The attached patch is generated from the commit available here:
  https://github.com/opencryptoki/openssl-ibmca/commit/a0e23d4063bf897dd9136c491d2201de5fbba653

  Generated with:
  git format-patch -1 a0e23d4063bf897dd9136c491d2201de5fbba653

  To be applied with:
  patch /openssl-ibmca/src/ibmca_rsa.c ~/0001-Fix-doing-rsa-me-altough-rsa-crt-would-be-possible.patch

  Fix applies smoothly and shows expected performance improvement as
  visible on the chart.

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