Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:04:13 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch to improve AES-NI performance Message-ID: <20130823180413.GL94127@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130823151615.GD41379@roberto02-aw.erc.corp.eurocontrol.int> References: <20130822202027.GH94127@funkthat.com> <20130823151615.GD41379@roberto02-aw.erc.corp.eurocontrol.int>
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Ollivier Robert wrote this message on Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 17:16 +0200:
> According to John-Mark Gurney on Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:20:27PM -0700:
> > I have developed a patch to improve AES-NI performance. If you took the
> > AES-XTS algorithm into userland (no cryptodev or geli usage), these
> > changes improve the performance over 10x in my tests (from ~150MB/sec to
> > over 2GB/sec). In tests of geli on gnop, the performance improvement is
> > more moderate, around 4x due to overhead in other parts of the system.
>
> Thanks a lot for this patch. Now, looking at it in the stable/9 context, I can see that pjd did not merge (as he said at the time of commit) r226839 & r226839. Is there any objection to merge these two (and possibly 247061 as well -- copyright update)?
You repeated r226839 twice. What is the correct second revision?
And both the ones above are just copyright updates, no functionality
changes...
> I ask that for two reasons, these two revisions are speeding up AES-NI quite a bit and they are required for using jmg's patch.
>
> I'll be testing all this in the next few days on my new AES-NI enabled machine.
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