Hi, since there has been a thread on allowing the use of a coprocessor in the kernel already: I am wondering if it'd make sense to use AltiVec for AES in dm-crypt, and how difficult it would be to implement that.
I'm using a PegasosII which has a G4 running at 1 GHz; I get around 3 MB/s throughput when accessing harddisks. I think that could be improved. If I understand correctly, the actual encryption work runs in a kernel thread, which is scheduled normally, so it ought to be possible to enable AltiVec for that thread; am I missing something here? Simon _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
