-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone in Tor want to name a price to get this task done? Can then be followed by a match donation to be spent with on whatever you wish once the multicore has been added.
T On 12/08/2015 00:32, coderman wrote: > On 8/11/15, Roman Mamedov <r...@romanrm.net> wrote: >> ... *Repeatedly headbangs on the desk* >> >> Uhm so what was I talking about. Ah yes, I believe that's not the >> case. It would add a great deal of benefit actually. > > it would be useful, particularly on systems with native > acceleration of supported crypto primitives. > > > >> As to why it's not implemented, I think simply because no one has >> coded it yet. > > correct. in particular, making the Tor internals efficiently > multi-threaded is difficult due to the particulars of crypto and > Tor network I/O in the implementation. > > i thought i had a list of Trac tickets to the gist of this matter, > alas i cannot find them. perhaps someone else has a convenient > collection? > > this also came up in context of using CUDA or OpenCL to accelerate > network crypto via CPU offload to GPU. > > the good news is that it is maybe less hard now, than it was some > years ago, to make this transition to well threaded internals in > Tor. maybe soon, even closer yet. and as you mention, patches > welcome since the best fix is code under test :) > > > best regards, > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVyqE0AAoJEIC+hZxcLl/keTAP/AnxXMUFNxFMY/sCMjFWrmV+ soKpOuo4Xoz4leJh15JkTtNK0FePODA6zH2Xrf1r7MiPq8EU06SJlOivPgqruV3i iLcCjKCLDGN+21T0M9br/dCxnXdwjT8s0MdnNvIQYQynX2bR7Wv+XMD5JIUWy5io JoNWWCTR3dRIPwqTFYltHDZYJp42qSrgTFicFDyZdPLtdzIz9Rl4C30sNPlA+uoG qQWAA3AsM2LnMvOUc2wjH/hvaG5cHBbATA65N1kfxKneIemEL/FS85YYwM1C/O4t jdUzN1Me9qW2VD9P/KtIVidl3RQcGZKnv6ZoAqGHwKBjEVEUa6oM8TWwyfUNJTHE GKBvCeOkblkOwp5WvzuHMRLdpr61hir+37KeZtJfbShGukEWrx8lxAfIYBui7iPC 0HwISwTxyCMd//OuzE6WFLyokwWUTVb0JPYoQMUxxDiPnnVmNfxq/M5sc1NXGieK KQFkzwaFRdk3aFeu9nuQRrGKk1okFsyPp1PU18ZBa+4TtbZar0OFn3nOQgO599pv NN0zrTuNfjFRaknkWJB3MkqBtLk1Lkg8LP0+fmTd3uHUkh7KMOUKFN4mC3thS3UT UteN58WLkdAxG8VHkR14ZlN30Us1/1bMZtHdMJTZrHIvUkswbkiUV0rATq+Z11hS Fwu52KUTcIKnacgoSe0u =5Wd9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
