From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 23 18:19:57 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246B651B; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:19:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1-6.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD83B2938; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:19:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.43.26] (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r7NIJtZZ017624; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:19:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <5217A7B5.8040904@sentex.net> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:19:33 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch to improve AES-NI performance References: <20130822202027.GH94127@funkthat.com> <20130823151615.GD41379@roberto02-aw.erc.corp.eurocontrol.int> <52177F0B.9020906@sentex.net> <20130823180513.GM94127@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130823180513.GM94127@funkthat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 on 64.7.153.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:19:57 -0000 On 8/23/2013 2:05 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >> Speeding up userland AES is very interesting to me for a couple of apps. >> If there is a proper way I should test on RELENG_9, please let me know >> as I am few boxes that I would be happy to test/deploy on. > > My patch would only effect userland applications that use /dev/crypto... > > If they do their own AES-NI work, then there isn't any improvement... For me its ssh which I think does, no ? ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/