acceleration for softraid crypto

2011-09-10 Thread Remi Locherer
Hi I'm running OpenBSD 4.9 on an Atom based system. On that system one disk is encrypted using softraid. When I do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c bs=1m (sd0 is the encrypted softraid device) systat shows a speed of ~ 9200K and 90% sys cpu usage. To speed up the encryption I'm looking at the

Re: acceleration for softraid crypto

2011-09-10 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Remi Locherer remi.loche...@relo.ch wrote: To speed up the encryption I'm looking at the vpn1411 card from soekris. The hifn(4) man page tells me that this card is supported and the chip (hifn 7955) accelerates AES-CBC. Correct. Will this card help making softraid crypto faster on that