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Introduce BLAKE3 checksums as an OpenZFS feature

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Introduce BLAKE3 checksums as an OpenZFS feature

This commit adds BLAKE3 checksums to OpenZFS, it has similar
performance to Edon-R, but without the caveats around the latter.

Homepage of BLAKE3: https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE_(hash_function)#BLAKE3

Short description of Wikipedia:

  BLAKE3 is a cryptographic hash function based on Bao and BLAKE2,
  created by Jack O'Connor, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, and
  Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn. It was announced on January 9, 2020, at Real
  World Crypto. BLAKE3 is a single algorithm with many desirable
  features (parallelism, XOF, KDF, PRF and MAC), in contrast to BLAKE
  and BLAKE2, which are algorithm families with multiple variants.
  BLAKE3 has a binary tree structure, so it supports a practically
  unlimited degree of parallelism (both SIMD and multithreading) given
  enough input. The official Rust and C implementations are
  dual-licensed as public domain (CC0) and the Apache License.

Along with adding the BLAKE3 hash into the OpenZFS infrastructure a
new benchmarking file called chksum_bench was introduced. When read
it reports the speed of the available checksum functions.

On Linux: cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/chksum_bench
On FreeBSD: sysctl kstat.zfs.misc.chksum_bench

This is an example output of an i3-1005G1 test system with Debian 11:

implementation 1k 4k 16k 64k 256k 1m 4m
edonr-generic 1196 1602 1761 1749 1762 1759 1751
skein-generic 546 591 608 615 619 612 616
sha256-generic 240 300 316 314 304 285 276
sha512-generic 353 441 467 476 472 467 426
blake3-generic 308 313 313 313 312 313 312
blake3-sse2 402 1289 1423 1446 1432 1458 1413
blake3-sse41 427 1470 1625 1704 1679 1607 1629
blake3-avx2 428 1920 3095 3343 3356 3318 3204
blake3-avx512 473 2687 4905 5836 5844 5643 5374

Output on Debian 5.10.0-10-amd64 system: (Ryzen 7 5800X)

implementation 1k 4k 16k 64k 256k 1m 4m
edonr-generic 1840 2458 2665 2719 2711 2723 2693
skein-generic 870 966 996 992 1003 1005 1009
sha256-generic 415 442 453 455 457 457 457
sha512-generic 608 690 711 718 719 720 721
blake3-generic 301 313 311 309 309 310 310
blake3-sse2 343 1865 2124 2188 2180 2181 2186
blake3-sse41 364 2091 2396 2509 2463 2482 2488
blake3-avx2 365 2590 4399 4971 4915 4802 4764

Output on Debian 5.10.0-9-powerpc64le system: (POWER 9)

implementation 1k 4k 16k 64k 256k 1m 4m
edonr-generic 1213 1703 1889 1918 1957 1902 1907
skein-generic 434 492 520 522 511 525 525
sha256-generic 167 183 187 188 188 187 188
sha512-generic 186 216 222 221 225 224 224
blake3-generic 153 152 154 153 151 153 153
blake3-sse2 391 1170 1366 1406 1428 1426 1414
blake3-sse41 352 1049 1212 1174 1262 1258 1259

Output on Debian 5.10.0-11-arm64 system: (Pi400)

implementation 1k 4k 16k 64k 256k 1m 4m
edonr-generic 487 603 629 639 643 641 641
skein-generic 271 299 303 308 309 309 307
sha256-generic 117 127 128 130 130 129 130
sha512-generic 145 165 170 172 173 174 175
blake3-generic 81 29 71 89 89 89 89
blake3-sse2 112 323 368 379 380 371 374
blake3-sse41 101 315 357 368 369 364 360

Structurally, the new code is mainly split into these parts:

  • 1x cross platform generic c variant: blake3_generic.c
  • 4x assembly for X86-64 (SSE2, SSE4.1, AVX2, AVX512)
  • 2x assembly for ARMv8 (NEON converted from SSE2)
  • 2x assembly for PPC64-LE (POWER8 converted from SSE2)
  • one file for switching between the implementations

Note the PPC64 assembly requires the VSX instruction set and the
kfpu_begin() / kfpu_end() calls on PowerPC were updated accordingly.

Reviewed-by: Felix Dörre <felix@dogcraft.de>
Reviewed-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tino Reichardt <milky-zfs@mcmilk.de>
Co-authored-by: Rich Ercolani <rincebrain@gmail.com>
Closes #10058
Closes #12918

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Tino Reichardt <milky-zfs@mcmilk.de>Authored on Jun 8 2022, 10:55 PM
GitHub <noreply@github.com>Committed on Jun 8 2022, 10:55 PM
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