Evgeniy Sudyr <eject.in...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to figure if I can improve isakmpd / ipsec performance in my setup
> on openbsd -current
>
> I have two boxes connected to each other via 1Gbit link and I'm using iperf
> to test performance with default ipsec.conf between these two servers:
>
> # cat ipsec.conf:
> ike esp from aaa.aaa.aaa.118 to aaa.aaa.aaa.98
Since both your machines have AES-NI, I'd use AES-GCM there
("quick enc aes-128-gcm").
> BOX1 dmesg:
> BOX2 dmesg:
Those are ncpu=16 and ncpu=8 machines...
> During iperf tests I see that both servers CPU usage is low and iperf is
> only CPU consumer:
That's the CPU usage summed over all cores. But the OpenBSD kernel
isn't multithreaded, so it only can make use of a fraction of the
total CPU power.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
