Mike Tancsa wrote this message on Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:26 -0400:
> On 8/23/2013 11:16 AM, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > According to John-Mark Gurney on Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:20:27PM -0700:
> >> I have developed a patch to improve AES-NI performance. If you took the
> >> AES-XTS algorithm into userland (no cryptodev or geli usage), these
> >> changes improve the performance over 10x in my tests (from ~150MB/sec to
> >> over 2GB/sec). In tests of geli on gnop, the performance improvement is
> >> more moderate, around 4x due to overhead in other parts of the system.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for this patch. Now, looking at it in the stable/9 context, I
> > can see that pjd did not merge (as he said at the time of commit) r226839 &
> > r226839. Is there any objection to merge these two (and possibly 247061 as
> > well -- copyright update)?
> >
> > I ask that for two reasons, these two revisions are speeding up AES-NI
> > quite a bit and they are required for using jmg's patch.
> >
> > I'll be testing all this in the next few days on my new AES-NI enabled
> > machine.
> >
>
> Speeding up userland AES is very interesting to me for a couple of apps.
> If there is a proper way I should test on RELENG_9, please let me know
> as I am few boxes that I would be happy to test/deploy on.
My patch would only effect userland applications that use /dev/crypto...
If they do their own AES-NI work, then there isn't any improvement...
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