On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2013-02-08, Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 01:54:27PM -0500, Scott McEachern wrote:
> >| What kind of hardware do you have powering those machines? Besides,
> >| I don't use the crypto partition too often and I really should make
> >| it smaller (it's only at 17% capacity out of 1.4TB).
> >
> > Admittedly, these are pretty powerful machines. And Antoine was
> > right, it's amd64 (I don't have i386 in real day-to-day use anymore).
> > But here are the dmesgs for my office workstation and my laptop:
> >
> > --- office workstation -----------------------------------------------
>
> <snip>
>
> > cpu0:
> > FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,C
> >FLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-
> >CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,
> >DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,LONG,LAHF,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,SMEP,E
> >RMS
>
> Seeing "AES" in this line is useful for a system using softraid crypto.
No, it is not currently - aesni(4) does not yet have support for AES XTS, so a
CPU with AES instructions will not help any. This should change soon :)
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