Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:53:46 EDT From: Bsdguru@aol.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <107.1bc2228.2868aa7a@aol.com>
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In a message dated 06/24/2001 2:53:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, soren@soekris.com writes: > And btw, hardware beats software anytime. The fastest PC processor right > now is about the same speed as the slowest hardware. what are the numbers? Are you accounting for the overhead in accessing the hardware? the impact of the stop-and-wait requirements for hardware processing? What about bus availability in a heavily utilized router? You are going to double the bus requirement. Most people take a rather trivial approach to such evaluations, and i suppose im concerned about anyone who thinks that hardware is "always faster" than software, because that argument is blatently wrong. a 33Mhz ASIC will not always be faster than the host, particularly with transfer and setup requirements. It has to be 3-5 times faster than the host just to break even. Bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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