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... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"