Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:32:21 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> Subject: Re: svn commit: r359374 - in head: . share/man/man4 share/man/man7 share/man/man9 sys/crypto/aesni sys/crypto/armv8 sys/crypto/blake2 sys/crypto/ccp sys/crypto/via sys/dev/cesa sys/dev/cxgbe sys/dev/cx... Message-ID: <20200413043221.GA60842@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <9c343572-5bf6-7047-f435-8e3fcffa8f8e@delphij.net> References: <202003271825.02RIPOmR010857@repo.freebsd.org> <9c343572-5bf6-7047-f435-8e3fcffa8f8e@delphij.net>
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On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:08:49PM -0700, Xin Li via svn-src-all wrote: > On 3/27/20 11:25 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > - Drivers no longer register a list of supported algorithms. [...] > > For user-visible interface, it seems like we are essentially treating > "accelerated software" like AES-NI the same way of plain software. For > example, geom_eli would now say: > > GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128 > GEOM_ELI: Crypto: software > > Instead of: > > GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128 > GEOM_ELI: Crypto: hardware > > [...] and it's much easier for system administrators if we expose the > fact that they are using some kind of acceleration than asking them to > run DTrace etc. to find out. Personally, I think it's probably better > to change the notion to either "accelerated" (by either hardware or > software) and "software"... +1 for "accelerated" vs. "software". For most users "accelerated" would mean AES-NI (dedicated crypto cards are not as common), and since most modern CPUs have those, not being able to easily distinguish between that and "pure software" (unaccelerated) mode is rather frustrating. ./danfe
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