Le Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:20:29 -0400, Michael Proto <m...@jellydonut.org> a écrit :
Hi, > With the speed of the Geode CPU in a 5501, you'd likely not see a > significant (if any) improvement in speed when using userland programs > like OpenSSL with onboard crypto accelerators. The context-switch from > userland to kernel for the crypto processing will be much more > expensive than the crypto itself. I ran some old benchmarks of the > crypto processor in the Geode LX (can't seem to find them now), but > with a patched OpenSSL I didn't see any real improvement versus > letting software do the whole thing. It depends of the size of the data to crypt ; with the Geode crypto device there is an improvement (from 3 MBytes to 5 MB) using sftp or scp. And the load is very lower than with software crypto. Same if you use "openssl enc". The benefit starts with a block around 256 octets. IMHO the Geode LX is slow. Regards. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
