Bitmanip and Crypto Extensions: Review Checklist

Review checklist

Review Checklist for Bitmanip and Crypto Extensions is anchored on Latency and throughput for SHA/AES/SM primitives versus scalar baselines, with constant-time behavior validation.. Convert observations into mechanism-backed decisions with explicit ownership.

• Workload scope and KPI targets are explicit.

• Environment metadata is locked and reproducible.

• Mechanism classification is evidence-backed.

• Owner and rollback conditions are documented.

• Validation matrix covers correctness, perf, and power.

• Owners signed: security architecture lead, integer and crypto pipeline owner, compiler backend owner, post-silicon validation owner.