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Eric Desrochers (slashd) wrote :

I has been brought to my attention that :
"CPUID detection in OpenSSL does not properly detect potential optimizations for AMD processors."

After further verification on my side :

Extended feature flags were not pulled on AMD processors, as result a number of extensions were effectively masked on Ryzen CPUs. It should have been reported for Excavator since it implements AVX2 extension, but apparently nobody noticed ...

The GitHub PR:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2849