On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 02:22, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce asynchronous crypto layer for Linux kernel 2.6.
> It support following features:
> - multiple asynchronous crypto device queues
> - crypto session routing
> - crypto session binding
> - modular load balancing
> - crypto session batching genetically implemented by design
> - crypto session priority
> - different kinds of crypto operation(RNG, asymmetrical crypto, HMAC and
> any other)
>
Very nice.
I am very curious if you see perfomance improvements over old scheme
in the case of a single crypto chip in a fast CPU.
It has been shown in the past that with a xeon in the range of 2Ghz the
context setup and the big lock (and lack of async) implied that
performance enhancement using a crypto chip was negligible.
IIRC, the only time it started showing anything useful was when a
compute intensive alg like 3DES was chewing packets >= 1000 bytes.
My suspicion is you will show it is better to use a crypto chip with
async;-> In the minimal you should show some improvement.
cheers,
jamal
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