On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:06, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> If we have a hardware accelerator chip, than we _already_ have improvements
> with even the worst async crypto layer, since software and hardware
> will work in parrallel.
Thats what i am hoping - and theory points to it. Numbers, numbers
please ;->
> I agree that multigigahertz box will beat my HIFN card,
> but I doubt it can beat 1gghz VIA.
The VIA is an interesting one; but it would still be interesting to see
comparisons.
Actually I should say a good comparison will be with a dual opteron
>= 2Ghz which i have no doubt will smoke a xeon - all in s/ware.
> And what about random numbers, async crypto, TPM?
> They all requires some kind of generalization.
>
Similar deferal approach should do it.
If you are brave, you should probably experiment as well with
non-crypto stuff to defer things like gettimeofday computes.
(i.e ask the hardware for time, defer response and then call netif_rx
with a tag saying time has been computed).
cheers,
jamal
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